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Intravenous Vitamin C Chemotherapy for Cancer |
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There are many good reasons to
give large quantities of ascorbate (vitamin C) to a cancer patient.
1. Vitamin C strengthens the
collagen “glue” that holds healthy cells together and retards the spread of
an existing tumor.
2. Vitamin C strengthens the immune system.
3. Vitamin C provides a surprising level of pain relief. 4. Vitamin C dramatically reduces the side effects of both radiation treatment and chemotherapy.
5. Vitamin C does not interfere with either chemo or radiation.
But there's more.
Vitamin C has been shown to be preferentially toxic to tumor cells, similar
to cytotoxic drug cancer chemotherapy. Laboratory and clinical studies
indicate that, in high enough doses, one can maintain blood plasma
concentrations of ascorbate high enough to selectively kill tumor cells. If
you have not heard about this, it is probably because most of the
best-publicized vitamin C and cancer studies simply have not utilized high
enough doses. Hugh D. Riordan, M.D., and colleagues have treatment data which
“demonstrate the ability to sustain plasma levels of ascorbic acid in
humans above levels which are toxic to tumor cells in vitro and suggests the
feasibility of using AA as a cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agent.” You can read the full
text of Dr. Riordan's paper at A listing of scientific
papers on this subject by Dr. Riordan's team will be found at This insightful, pioneering research has been confirmed:
Padayatty et al. Intravenously administered vitamin C as cancer
therapy: three cases. Canadian Medical
Association Journal, 2006. 174(7), March 28, p 937-942. Free download at http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/reprint/174/7/937
See also:
Chen Q, Espey MG, Sun AY et al. Pharmacologic doses of ascorbate act as a prooxidant and decrease growth of aggressive tumor xenografts in mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2008 Aug 12;105(32):11105-9.
Chen Q, Espey MG, Sun AY et al. Ascorbate in pharmacologic concentrations selectively generates ascorbate radical and hydrogen peroxide in extracellular fluid in vivo. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2007 May 22;104(21):8749-54.
Chen Q, Espey MG, Krishna MC et al. Pharmacologic ascorbic acid concentrations selectively kill cancer cells: action as a pro-drug to deliver hydrogen peroxide to tissues. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Sep 20;102(38):13604-9.
Riordan NH et al. Intravenous ascorbate as a tumor cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agent. Medical Hypotheses, 1995. 44(3). p 207-213, March.
Andrew Saul is the coauthor of I HAVE CANCER: WHAT SHOULD I DO? http://www.doctoryourself.com/cancereviews.html. He is also the author of the books FIRE
YOUR DOCTOR! How to be Independently Healthy (reader reviews at
http://www.doctoryourself.com/review.html
) and DOCTOR YOURSELF: Natural Healing that Works. (reviewed at http://www.doctoryourself.com/saulbooks.html
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