Vitamin C Shows Promise as Cancer Treatment
Vitamin C Shows Promise as Cancer Treatment
Vitamin C has long been one of the most respected of all vitamins, lauded for its supposed powers to treat many ills, from colds to heart disease. New research with mice suggests that intravenous doses of vitamin C could one day reduce the size of cancerous tumors in people. The new study, published in the Aug. 4-8 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Levine and his colleagues found that intravenous vitamin C produced hydrogen peroxide, which proceeded to reduce cancerous tumors in the mice by 43 percent to 51 percent.
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http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/08/01/0804226105.abstract?sid=4b092fe0-1a67-4d86-b4d5-144f3f76a2d0
doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804226105
Vitamin C has long been one of the most respected of all vitamins, lauded for its supposed powers to treat many ills, from colds to heart disease. New research with mice suggests that intravenous doses of vitamin C could one day reduce the size of cancerous tumors in people. The new study, published in the Aug. 4-8 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Levine and his colleagues found that intravenous vitamin C produced hydrogen peroxide, which proceeded to reduce cancerous tumors in the mice by 43 percent to 51 percent.
Read full article
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/08/01/0804226105.abstract?sid=4b092fe0-1a67-4d86-b4d5-144f3f76a2d0
doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804226105
