Cancer: Intravenous Vitamin C Effective Treatment

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Health Supreme Update: Cancer: Intravenous Vitamin C

Effective Treatment

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Health Supreme Update: Cancer: Intravenous Vitamin C Effective

Treatment

 

 

 

 

September 13, 2005

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Cancer: Intravenous Vitamin C Effective Treatment

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Studies during the 1970s first suggested administration of high

doses of ascorbate might provide a clinical benefit for treating

cancer, but later studies using the same high doses found no benefit.

 

However, researchers now say the original studies used intravenous

and oral ascorbate, while subsequent studies used only oral

administration. Recognizing those differences might account for the

disparate clinical outcomes, Mark Levine and colleagues at the

National Institutes of Health reexamined intravenous ascorbate therapy

in cultured cancer cell lines.

 

The researchers found ascorbate killed cancer cells at

concentrations that would only be achievable through intravenous

infusion. Normal cells were not affected by ascorbate at any

concentration.

 

Additionally, the scientists report ascorbate treatment led to the

formation of hydrogen peroxide, a chemical that can kill cells,

suggesting a potential mechanism for the therapy.

 

The research appears in this week's online, early edition of the

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

 

Phys.org Vitamin C: possible cancer-killing promise

http://www.physorg.com/news6427.html

 

See also Web MD Study: Vitamin C May Fight Cancer

webmd.com/content/Article/111/110117.htm?pagenumber=1

 

 

posted by sepp on Tuesday September 13 2005