High dose vitamin C benefits cancer patients

Laboratory study has illustrated that high-dose vitamin C can boost the cancer-killing effect of chemotherapy and develop patients’ treatment.

The study, conducted by the scientists of the University of Kansas, showed that getting vitamin C shot kills cancer cells without harming normal ones.

They achieved the result through vitamin C injection into human ovarian cancer cells in the lab, into mice as well as into patients with advanced ovarian cancer, according to the report appeared in Science Translational Medicine.

However, vitamin C has long been known as an alternative therapy for cancer, taking vitamin C by mouth failed to replicate the effect.

Clinical trials of oral taking of vitamin C indicate that the human body quickly excretes the vitamin when it is taken by mouth.


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