US Research suggests that Vitamin C keeps Cancer in check
The Unhived Mind
8 February 2014 Last updated at 20:50 ET
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26038460
Vitamin C keeps cancer at bay, US research suggests
By Helen Briggs
High-dose vitamin C can boost the cancer-killing effect of chemotherapy in the lab and mice, research suggests.
Given by injection, it could potentially be a safe, effective and low-cost treatment for ovarian and other cancers, say US scientists.
Reporting in Science Translational Medicine, they call for large-scale government clinical trials.
Pharmaceutical companies are unlikely to run trials, as vitamins cannot be patented.
Vitamin C has long been used as an alternative therapy for cancer.
In the 1970s, chemist Linus Pauling reported that vitamin C given intravenously was effective in treating cancer.
However, clinical trials of vitamin C given by mouth failed to replicate the effect, and research was abandoned.
It is now known that the human body quickly excretes vitamin C when it is taken by mouth.
However, scientists at the University of Kansas say that when given by injection vitamin C is absorbed into the body, and can kill cancer cells without harming normal ones.
The researchers injected vitamin C into human ovarian cancer cells in the lab, into mice, and into patients with advanced ovarian cancer.
They found ovarian cancer cells were sensitive to vitamin C treatment, but normal cells were unharmed.
The treatment worked in tandem with standard chemotherapy drugs to slow tumour growth in mouse studies. Meanwhile, a small group of patients reported fewer side-effects when given vitamin C alongside chemotherapy.
No patent potential
Co-researcher Dr Jeanne Drisko said there was growing interest in the use of vitamin C by oncologists.
“Patients are looking for safe and low-cost choices in their management of cancer,” she told BBC News. “Intravenous vitamin C has that potential based on our basic science research and early clinical data.”
One potential hurdle is that pharmaceutical companies are unlikely to fund trials of intravenous vitamin C because there is no ability to patent natural products.
“Because vitamin C has no patent potential, its development will not be supported by pharmaceutical companies,” said lead researcher Qi Chen.
“We believe that the time has arrived for research agencies to vigorously support thoughtful and meticulous clinical trials with intravenous vitamin C.”
Dr Kat Arney, science communications manager for Cancer Research UK, said there was a long history of research into vitamin C for treating cancer.
“It’s difficult to tell with such a small trial – just 22 patients – whether high-dose vitamin C injections had any effect on survival, but it’s interesting that it seemed to reduce the side-effects of chemotherapy,” she said.
“Any potential treatment for cancer needs to be thoroughly evaluated in large clinical trials to make sure it’s safe and effective, so further studies are needed before we know for sure what benefits high dose vitamin C may have for patients.”
theunhivedmind says:
Countries like Turkey have been using intravenous sodium ascorbate treatments against cancer for years. It is very true that you can utilize vitamin C against cancer. It works similar to ozone as it oxidizes (scrubs out) the cancers from the inside and outside. Why inside? The molecular structure of vitamin C is almost identical to sugar so the vitamin C is lapped up by the cancers. Cancers adore sugar, its their main source of food. Another good thing for getting inside cancers is potassium. What I would like to point out is that when Dr Linus Pauling’s wife got sick with cancer what did he do? He did not rely on vitamin C because it is not the true answer it is merely an aid. Linus Pauling took his wife to Dr William Donald Kelley to be treated with numerous methods as well as metabolic typing her diet. The Worshipful Company of Apothecaries and The Worshipful Company of Barbers who control the pharmaceutical and medical industry do not want to lose profits from very expensive chemotherapies but what they really do not want to lose is the population control and reduction. The culling of the herd has to continue until the Club of Rome’s agenda is complete. Ask yourself why trials of Vitamin C by mouth were used before rather than by IV? These buggers always fiddle the trials to suit their wishes. The same as how they use the useless synthetic vitamin E rather than the very good natural vitamin E. A potential problem with vitamin C today is that it is mostly ascorbic acid and made from GMO corn. The quality is also poor as it is coming from China. So not only are you getting a frankenfood low quality product, you are also paying more for it as inflation rockets.
-= The Unhived Mind