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Abstract

GONZALEZ and colleagues, University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, Graduate School of Public Health, Department Human Development, Nutrition Program, PO Box 365067, San Juan, PR, mgonzalez@rcm.upr.edu, have reviewed (173 references) vitamin C and cancer. Abstract: The effect of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) on cancer has been a subject of great controversy. This is a follow-up review of the 1979 article by Cameron, Pauling, and Leibovitz published in Cancer Research. In this updated version, the authors address general aspects of ascorbic acid and cancer that have been presented before, while reviewing, analyzing, and updating new existing literature on the subject. In addition, they present and discuss their own hypothesis on the mechanism of action of ascorbic acid on the cancer cell. The objective of this review is to provide an updated scientific basis for the use of vitamin C, especially intravenously as adjuvant treatment in pharmacological nutritional oncology.

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Gonzalez MJ, Miranda-Massari JR, Mora EM, Guzman A, Riordan NH, Riordan HD, Casciari JJ, Jackson JA, Roman-Franco A. Orthomolecular oncology review: ascorbic acid and cancer 25 years later. Integrative Cancer Therapies 4 (1): 32-44, Mar 2005.

Comment

It is a great mystery that it has taken a quarter of a century for researchers to twig that a higher dose of vitamin C can be achieved than by oral methods. These authors are to be commended, however, for yet again bothering their medical colleagues to look again at the masses of research and clinical evidence regarding the efficacy of vitamin C, for cancer, as well as to a whole host of other deadly diseases.