Injected Vitamin C Shrinks Tumors In Mice

Featured Article Main Category: US researchers found that giving mice with rapidly spreading ovarian, pancreatic, and brain cancers high "pharmacologic " dose injections of vitamin C, also known as ascorbate or ascorbic acid, caused the tumors to shrink and their growth to slow down by as much as 50 per cent. The study was the work of researchers at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and was published online ahead of print on 4th August in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS. Vitamin C is an essential nutrient that is commonly regarded as an antioxidant, wrote the researchers. But in this study, using 43 cancer and 5 normal cell lines in the laboratory, they showed that at high pharmacologic doses it behaved like a a prooxidant, generating hydrogen peroxide and producing an anticancer effect that... [read full story]