High dose Vitamin C for Cancer, Breast Cancer too
High dose Vitamin C for Cancer, Breast Cancer too
by Gary Null, PhD; Howard Robins, DPM; Mark Tanenbaum, DPM; & Patrick Jennings, Editor
Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients – May 1997
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Why Review the Scientific Literature?
Proper basic nutrition is an essential foundation for health, but there is a growing awareness that it’s not enough. One has only to consider the high disease rates in our society – Cancer diseases are now the second largest killer in the US as well as the first in the world, and our rates of cancer, arthritis, and mental illness are not abating – to realize that we have to go beyond basic nutrition in combating disease. It is time to look at supplemental nutrients in a serious light, in order to better understand their role in helping our natural immune defenses prevent disease, and in altering the course of disease as well.
People talk about Traditional medicine and Integrative Medicine as if there’s a great divide between the two, but this dichotomy is so artificial. The bottom line in healing is: What works? We need to combine the best of both world to achieve true healing.
This article offers a review of the scientific literature on the impact of vitamin C on cancer. The questions, “What works?” and “How might it be applied?” were the motivational ones behind this review.
In other words, what follows is not anecdotal evidence; it is scientific evidence.This review article notes that approximately 90 studies have been done on the role of vitamin C in cancer prevention. Protective effects have been shown for cancers of the pancreas, oral cavity, stomach, esophagus, cervix, rectum, breast, and lung.
– G. Block, et al., Epidemiologic Evidence Regarding Vitamin C and Cancer, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 54 (6 Suppl), December 1991, p. 1310S-1314S.
Daily supplementation of lg of vitamin C decreased the amount of chromosome damage induced in lymphocytes by an exposure to bleomycin during the last 5 h of cell culture.
An antioxidant vitamin mix consisting of ascorbic acid ( Vitamin C), alpha-tocopherol and lecithin as well as a rosemary extract with carnosic acid and carnosol as the two major active ingredients were shown to have an anticacer effects in Ames tester strain TA102. Ascorbic acid was held responsible for this inhibitory property in the vitamin mix, while carnosic acid was identified as the antimutagenic agent in the rosemary extract. The authors conclude that these antioxidants might exhibit anticarcinogenic properties.
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