INTRAVENOUS VITAMIN C and CANCER

October 31, 2007

Courtesy of K.M.

(http://www.orthomolecular.org/library/ivccancerpt.shtml)

October 30, 2007

INTRAVENOUS VITAMIN C and CANCER

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" ...it takes much more than logic and clear-cut demonstrations to overcome

the inertia and dogma of established thought. "

â€” Irving Stone

Irving Stone was an early thinker and writer about vitamin C (its scientific

name is ascorbic acid). He knew it would be an uphill battle to change the

way the medical profession viewed vitamin C. While most doctors accept that

scurvy is a vitamin C deficiency illness, few have made the rather humongous

jump to seeing high dose intravenous vitamin C as a major player in the

management of cancer.

There is actually a wide spectrum of medical uses for vitamin C. Evidence

exists documenting it as the best antiviral agent now available ... IF used at

the proper dose. Vitamin C can neutralize and eliminate a wide range of

toxins. Vitamin C will enhance host resistance, greatly augmenting the immune

system's ability to neutralize bacterial and fungal infections. Now the

National

Institutes of Health has published evidence demonstrating vitamin C's

anti-cancer properties. With so many medical benefits, why do so few doctors

know

of them?

One explanation stems from ascorbic acid's designation as a " vitamin. "

Consider Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary's definition of vitamin: A

general term for a number of unrelated organic substances that occur in many

foods in small amounts that are necessary in trace amounts for the normal

metabolic functioning of the body

.. As a vitamin, only a minuscule 60 mg of ascorbic acid is needed to prevent

the emergence of scurvy symptoms. As a medical treatment for cancer and

life-threatening infections and toxic exposures, tens of thousands of

milligrams

of ascorbic acid must be administered, often by the intravenous (IV) as well

as the oral route.

The Center's founder, Dr. Hugh Riordan, was a true scientist who believed in

the power of scientific measurement over dogma. With the establishment of

The Center in 1975, he routinely checked plasma vitamin C levels in chronically

ill patients. He found these sick patients to be consistently low in their

plasma C levels. Interestingly enough, the cancer patients he was seeing had

VERY LOW vitamin C reserves

.. This matched scientific literature documenting low vitamin C levels in

cancer patients. Cancer cells were actively taking up vitamin C in a way that

depleted tissue reserves of C.

PET scans are commonly ordered by oncologists to evaluate their cancer

patients for metastases (cancer spread to other organs). What is actually

injected

into the patient at the start of the scan is radioactive glucose. Cancer

cells are anaerobic obligates, which means they depend upon glucose as their

primary source of metabolic fuel. Cancer cells employ transport mechanisms

called glucose transporters to actively pull in glucose.

In the vast majority of animals, vitamin C is synthesized from glucose in

only four metabolic steps. Hence, the molecular shape of vitamin C is

remarkably similar to glucose. (Figure 1) Cancer cells will actively transport

vitamin

C into themselves, possibly because they mistake it for glucose. Another

plausible explanation is that they are using the vitamin C as an antioxidant.

Regardless, the vitamin C accumulates in cancer cells.

Figure 1

If large amounts of vitamin C are presented to cancer cells, large amounts

will be absorbed. In these unusually large concentrations, the antioxidant

vitamin C will start behaving as a pro-oxidant as it interacts with

intracellular copper and iron. This chemical interaction produces small amounts

of

hydrogen peroxide.

Because cancer cells are relatively low in an intracellular anti-oxidant

enzyme called catalase, the high dose vitamin C induction of peroxide will

continue to build up until it eventually lyses the cancer cell from the inside

out! This effectively makes high dose IVC a non-toxic chemotherapeutic agent

that can be given in conjunction with conventional cancer treatments. Based on

the work of several vitamin C pioneers before him, Dr. Riordan was able to

prove that vitamin C was selectively toxic to cancer cells if given

intravenously. This research was recently reproduced and published by Dr. Mark

Levine at

the National Institutes of Health.

As feared by many oncologists, small doses may actually help the cancer

cells because small amounts of vitamin C may help the cancer cells arm

themselves

against the free-radical induced damage caused by chemotherapy and

radiation. Only markedly higher doses of vitamin C will selectively build up

as

peroxide in the cancer cells to the point of acting in a manner similar to

chemotherapy. These tumor-toxic dosages can only be obtained by intravenous

administration.

Over a span of 15 years of vitamin C research, Dr. Riordan's RECNAC (cancer

spelled backwards) research team generated 20 published papers on vitamin C

and cancer. RECNAC even inspired its second cancer research institute, known

as RECNAC II, at the University of Puerto Rico. This group recently published

an excellent paper in Integrative Cancer Therapies, titled " Orthomolecular

Oncology Review: Ascorbic Acid and Cancer 25 Years Later. " RECNAC data has

shown that vitamin C is toxic to tumor cells without sacrificing the

performance

of chemotherapy.

Intravenous vitamin C also does more than just kill cancer cells. It boosts

immunity. It can stimulate collagen formation to help the body wall off the

tumor. It inhibits hyaluronidase, an enzyme that tumors use to metastasize and

invade other organs throughout the body. It induces apoptosis to help

program cancer cells into dying early. It corrects the almost universal scurvy

in

cancer patients. Cancer patients are tired, listless, bruise easily, and have

a poor appetite. They don't sleep well and have a low threshold for pain.

This adds up to a very classic picture of scurvy that generally goes

unrecognized by their conventional physicians.

When Center cancer patients receive IVC, they report that their pain level

goes down, and that they are better able to tolerate their chemotherapy. They

bounce back quicker since the IVC reduces the toxicity of the chemotherapy

and radiation without compromising their cancer cell killing effects. IVC is

complementary to oncologic care. IVC is not " either/or " - it's a good

" both/and " proposition. IVC can help cancer patients withstand the effects of

their

traditional therapies, heal faster, be more resilient to infection, develop a

better appetite, and remain more active overall. These things promote a better

response to their cancer therapy.

IVC has been used for three decades here at The Center. There have been no

serious complications, but there are a couple of potential complications that

need to be screened for. Because vitamin C enhances iron absorption, iron

overload must be ruled out. The high sodium load of IVC can create a fluid

overload in a patient with congestive heart failure, renal insufficiency or

failure. We also check our patients for G6PD deficiency (an enzyme used to

maintain

stability of the red blood cell membranes). Although many physicians worry

that large doses of vitamin C may cause kidney stones, we have rarely seen the

phenomenon, and several huge clinical trials in the medical literature

refute this misconception.

To summarize, most organisms make their own vitamin C. When they are under

stress, either by illness or injury, Mother Nature has provided them with a

means to facilitate healing: they synthesize more ascorbic acid. As a result,

they are in less pain, they remain active, they can sleep, and they have a

better appetite: all functions which promote healing.

Dr. Riordan once said that here at The Center, we don't treat cancer... we

treat people who happen to have cancer. IVC is a tool that allows our Center

physicians to harness a healing mechanism that our human ancestors lost long

ago: the ability to dramatically increase tissue levels of vitamin C. Research

shows that the astonishingly high levels achievable only by IVC not only

help fight the risk of infection and the pain of metastases, they actually aid

in the defeat of the cancer cells themselves, through a very elegant mechanism

that does no harm to healthy cells. It's a discovery that the medical world

is only beginning to discover.

_Ron Hunninghake, M.D.,_ (http://brightspot.org/drs/ronresume.shtml)

Chief Medical Officer, Olive W. Garvey Center for Healing Arts

November 2, 2007

To all the people who are looking for alternative medicine, Vit C is one of the

most effective anti-viral and anti-cancer, especially for hepatitis and wonder

why some doctors refuse to acknowledge or admit the efficacy of vitamin C and

refuse to prescribe it for immediate cure of such illness even do it is already

or has been proven by so many doctors like Dr.Linus Pauling, Dr Klenner, Dr.

Robert Fulton Cathcart and many others.

Pls visit www.doctoryourself.com

You can browse so many things here epecially Vit C. Just like the one below.

1971 Dr. Klenner Vitamin C Paper

Journal of Applied Nutrition Vol. 23, No's 3 & 4, Winter 1971 Observations On

the Dose and Administration of Ascorbic Acid When Employed Beyond the Range Of A

Vitamin In Human Pathology Frederick R. Klenner, M.D., F.C.C.P. Keep on

searching for natural alternative medicine, its for our own good health and good

healthy living for long life

surpriseshan2 wrote: Courtesy of K.M.

(http://www.orthomolecular.org/library/ivccancerpt.shtml)

October 30, 2007

INTRAVENOUS VITAMIN C and CANCER

_http://www.orthomolecular.org/library/ivccancerpt.shtml_

(http://www.orthomolecular.org/library/ivccancerpt.shtml)

" ...it takes much more than logic and clear-cut demonstrations to overcome

the inertia and dogma of established thought. "

â€” Irving Stone

Irving Stone was an early thinker and writer about vitamin C (its scientific

name is ascorbic acid). He knew it would be an uphill battle to change the

way the medical profession viewed vitamin C. While most doctors accept that

scurvy is a vitamin C deficiency illness, few have made the rather humongous

jump to seeing high dose intravenous vitamin C as a major player in the

management of cancer.

There is actually a wide spectrum of medical uses for vitamin C. Evidence

exists documenting it as the best antiviral agent now available ... IF used at

the proper dose. Vitamin C can neutralize and eliminate a wide range of

toxins. Vitamin C will enhance host resistance, greatly augmenting the immune

system's ability to neutralize bacterial and fungal infections. Now the

National

Institutes of Health has published evidence demonstrating vitamin C's

anti-cancer properties. With so many medical benefits, why do so few doctors

know

of them?

One explanation stems from ascorbic acid's designation as a " vitamin. "

Consider Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary's definition of vitamin: A

general term for a number of unrelated organic substances that occur in many

foods in small amounts that are necessary in trace amounts for the normal

metabolic functioning of the body

. As a vitamin, only a minuscule 60 mg of ascorbic acid is needed to prevent

the emergence of scurvy symptoms. As a medical treatment for cancer and

life-threatening infections and toxic exposures, tens of thousands of

milligrams

of ascorbic acid must be administered, often by the intravenous (IV) as well

as the oral route.

The Center's founder, Dr. Hugh Riordan, was a true scientist who believed in

the power of scientific measurement over dogma. With the establishment of

The Center in 1975, he routinely checked plasma vitamin C levels in

chronically

ill patients. He found these sick patients to be consistently low in their

plasma C levels. Interestingly enough, the cancer patients he was seeing had

VERY LOW vitamin C reserves

. This matched scientific literature documenting low vitamin C levels in

cancer patients. Cancer cells were actively taking up vitamin C in a way that

depleted tissue reserves of C.

PET scans are commonly ordered by oncologists to evaluate their cancer

patients for metastases (cancer spread to other organs). What is actually

injected

into the patient at the start of the scan is radioactive glucose. Cancer

cells are anaerobic obligates, which means they depend upon glucose as their

primary source of metabolic fuel. Cancer cells employ transport mechanisms

called glucose transporters to actively pull in glucose.

In the vast majority of animals, vitamin C is synthesized from glucose in

only four metabolic steps. Hence, the molecular shape of vitamin C is

remarkably similar to glucose. (Figure 1) Cancer cells will actively transport

vitamin

C into themselves, possibly because they mistake it for glucose. Another

plausible explanation is that they are using the vitamin C as an antioxidant.

Regardless, the vitamin C accumulates in cancer cells.

Figure 1

If large amounts of vitamin C are presented to cancer cells, large amounts

will be absorbed. In these unusually large concentrations, the antioxidant

vitamin C will start behaving as a pro-oxidant as it interacts with

intracellular copper and iron. This chemical interaction produces small

amounts of