cancer and vitamin C

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Here is one web site about cancer and vitamin C by Dr. Hoffer. He is

one of the founders of orthomolecular psychiatry. He has many years

of vitamin research and clinical studies..........

 

 

http://www.islandnet.com/~hoffer/

 

 

Introduction

 

Between 1978 and March, 1999 I have seen over 1040 patients suffering

from cancer who came to me for nutritional and psychiatric

counseling. This is no longer a surprising combination as it was when

I first started to practice psychiatry in 1952. I attended my first

annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Los

Angeles, in 1952. I did not meet another psychiatrist there with a

PhD in Biochemistry. Since then many more scientists with the double

degrees have become active in this field but of these very few

actively pursue this particular combination. Orthomolecular theory

and practice drives these two together. I have retained my interest

in the biochemistry and clinical aspects of nutrition combining this

with my education in medicine and later in psychiatry. The recovery

of my first patient in 1960 from terminal bronchiogenic cancer of the

lung arose from this coalescence of these two disciplines.

 

By 1960 my research group in Saskatchewan had discovered the first

biochemical substance that was clearly related to the schizophrenias.

Not knowing its structure we called it the mauve factor until it was

later identified as kryptopyrrole. We tested thousands of patients

and found that over 75% of all schizophrenic patients excreted this

substance in their urine. It was also present in about 25% of other

psychiatric groups, in about 10% of severely stressed physically ill

patients and in about 5% of normal people but they were mostly first

order relatives of schizophrenic patients. It disappeared with

recovery of the patients no matter how they were treated. I was

particularly interested in the fact that out of eight patients with

cancer of the lung this factor was present in 5.

 

In 1960 a retired psychotic professor was admitted to our psychiatric

department at University Hospital in Saskatoon. He had a

bronchiogenic carcinoma of the lung and when he became psychotic it

was concluded he had secondaries in his brain. He was placed on

terminal care, expected to die in a month or so. Earlier he had been

discharged to the care of his wife and a nurse but after several

weeks had to be readmitted since they could not cope with his

behavior. As soon as I discovered he was on our ward I had his urine

collected and we tested it for the factor. He excreted copious

quantities which we were able to use to help us identify the

substance. I then advised his resident to start him on niacin 1 gram

after each meal and on ascorbic acid 1 gram after each meal. By then

I knew that this combination of vitamins used in megadoses was very

helpful in treating any patient with this factor in their urine no

matter what they were diagnosed. Fortunately for this patient the

resident accepted my advice (the patient was not under my care but I

was Director of Psychiatric Research at the hospital). He was started

on the two vitamins on Friday afernoon and he was mentally normal by

the following Monday.

 

I knew this patient before he became ill as I had treated his wife.

After he had

 

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