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Misty L. Trepke

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Cancer & Vitamin C

 

This is from Dr. Andrew Saul's " Doctor Yourself News " issue dated

9/5/03. I'll put the subscription info at the bottom in case anyone

is interested....it's a free newsletter.

 

CANCER

 

It is a logical but large step to propose that, if cells stick

together, tumors would have a tough time spreading through them.

Irwin Stone (4) credited McCormick with taking that very step:

 

 

" In cancer, the maintenance of collagen synthesis at optimal levels,

may provide such tough and strong tissue ground substance around any

growing cancer cells so that they would be firmly anchored and could

not break away and metastasize. "

 

 

This simple theory would be the foundation for Linus Pauling and Ewan

Cameron's decision to employ large doses of vitamin C to fight

cancer. After all, if cancer cells are going to try to metastasize,

it makes sense to provide abundant vitamin C to strengthen collagen

to keep them from doing so.

 

 

Dr. McCormick was among the first to comment that persons with cancer

typically have exceptionally low levels of vitamin C in their

tissues, a deficiency of approximately 4,500 mg. This could help

explain why a cancer patient's collagen is generally not tough

enough to be able to prevent cancer from spreading.

 

 

McCormick also thought that the symptoms of classic vitamin C

deficiency disease, scurvy, closely resemble the symptoms of some

types of leukemia and other forms cancer. Today, although scurvy is

generally considered to be virtually extinct, cancer is all too

prevalent. If the signs of development of cancer and scurvy are

similar, could they be fundamentally the same disease under

different names? In his 1962 paper " Have We Forgotten the

Lesson of Scurvy " (5) Dr. McCormick writes:

 

" As long ago as 1609, Martini cited by (scurvy research pioneer Dr.

James) Lind stated that scurvy is nearly allied to the plague, as it

occasions carbuncles, buboes and cancer. In an effort to clarify

this relationship we published two papers (6,7) in which we advanced

the hypothesis that deficiency of vitamin C, by bringing about

disintegration of epithelial and connective tissue relationships,

owing to liquefaction of the intercellular cement substance

collagen) and disintegration of the connective tissue of the

basement membrane, results in breakdown of orderly cellular

arrangement, thus acting as a prelude to cancer. "

 

He also cites this obscure but interesting reference in the 1905

edition of Northnagel's Encyclopedia of Practical Medicine (8) which

describes the scorbutic aspects of acute lymphatic leukemia: " The

most striking clinical symptoms of this disease are the hemorrhages

and their sequelae. . . Every touch produces hemmorhage, making a

condition completely identical with that of scurvy. "

 

Dr. McCormick's conclusion is that

 

" Our major effort (against cancer) should be directed toward

prevention of the cause of the cellular disarrangement - collagenous

breakdown of epithelial and subepithelial connective tissues - as

manifested in open sores or fissures that fail to heal readily, and

unusual or easily produced hemorrhage. Such lesions may be early

warning signs of future cancer. They likewise are early signs of

scurvy. " (p. 10)

 

If our civilization is suffering from a scurvy epidemic under the

current name of cancer, then the symptoms, progress and results of

the two diseases may have a common cause (vitamin C deficiency) and

a common treatment: vitamin C in large quantity. If this is even

partially true, then all cancer patients should receive large doses

of ascorbic acid as a matter of routine.

 

(All footnoted references for this paper are posted in their

entirety at http://www.doctoryourself.com/mccormick.html )

 

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