Researchers at the University of Kansas Medical Center have found that receiving a mega dose of an important vitamin not only kills cancer cells, it also eases the side effects of chemotherapy.
The study results show that combining vitamin C with the chemotherapy drugs paclitaxel and carboplatin work effectively to kill ovarian cancer cells. At the same time, people treated with the vitamin and drugs suffered less toxicity from the drugs.
As researcher Qi Chen told the Los Angeles Times, “What we’ve discovered is that, because of its pharmacokinetic differences, intravenous vitamin C, as opposed to oral vitamin C, kills some cancer cells without harming normal tissues.”
In this study, the researchers followed the health of cancer patients for five years. Those who were given vitamin C experienced fewer toxic effects.
Chen says: “In the 1970s, ascorbate, or vitamin C, was an unorthodox therapy for cancer. It was safe, and there were anecdotal reports of its clinical effectiveness when given intravenously. But after oral doses proved ineffective in two cancer clinical trials, conventional oncologists abandoned the idea. Physicians practicing complementary and alternative medicine continued to use it, so we felt further study was in order.”
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