For Brain Tumor:
By now, most people know that vitamin C is a strong antioxidant that has power to boost immune function, increase resistance to infection and helps protect against a wide range of diseases. Lab studies reveal that this therapy is effective against a lot of types of cancer, including lung, brain, colon, breast, pancreatic and ovarian cancers.
For Breast Cancer:
Metastatic breast cancer can also be prevented thanks to vitamin C, as it helps to alkalize the body.
Intravenous (IV) vitamin C was studied in patients with breast cancer who were treated with adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation therapy. The study found that patients who received IV vitamin C had a better quality of life than those who didn’t.
A study of IV vitamin C and high doses of vitamin C consumed orally was done in patients with cancer that couldn’t be cured. Vitamin C was shown to be safe and effective in improving the quality of life in these patients, including physical, mental and emotional functions, symptoms of fatigue, nausea and vomiting, pain and appetite loss.
Vitamin C has also been shown to be safe when given to healthy volunteers and cancer patients at doses up to 1.5g/kg, while screening out patients with certain risk factrs who should avoid vitamin C. Studies have also shown that vitamin C levels in the blood are higher when consumed by IV than when taken orally, and it can last for more than 4 hours.
For Cancer:
High dosages of vitamin C may be given via a intravenous (IV) infusion (through a vein into the bloodstream) or orally (taken by mouth). When taken via IV, vitamin C can reach much higher levels in the blood than when the same amount is taken orally. High-dose vitamin C has been studied as a treatment for cancer patients since the 1970s.
WHAT’S THE HISTORY AND USE OF HIGH-DOSE VITAMIN C AS A COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT FOR CANCER?
High doses of vitamin C has been studied as a treatment for cancer patients since the early 70s. A Scottish surgeon, Ewan Cameron, worked with a Nobel Prize-winning chemist by the name of Linus Pauling to study all of the possible benefits of vitamin C therapy in clinical trials of cancer patients between the late 70s and early 80s.
Surveys of healthcare practitioners at the United States CAM conferences in recent years have shown that high-dose IV vitamin C is frequently given to patients as a treatment for infections, fatigue and cancers, including breast cancer.
WHAT’S THE THEORY BEHIND THE CLAIM THAT HIGH DOSAGE OF VITAMIN C IS USEFUL FOR CANCER TREATMENT?
More than 50 years ago, a study pointed out that cancer was considered to be a disease of changes in cognitive tissue caused by a vitamin C deficiency. In the 1970s, it was then proposed that high doses of ascorbic acid could help establish resistance to diseases or infection and could possibly help treat cancer.
Later studies have showed that the vitamin C levels that collect inside the bloodstreat depend on how much of it has been taken.
Laboratory studies have shown that high doses of vitamin C may slow down the growth and spread of prostate, pancreatic, liver, colon and other different types of cancer cells.
Laboratory studies and animal studies have been done to find out if high-dose vitamin C may be useful in the prevention, or even for the treatment, of cancer.
LABORATORY STUDIES
A lot of laboratory studies have been conducted to find out how high doses of vitamin C may cause the death of cancer cells. The anticancer effects of vitamin C in different kinds of cancer cells involves a chemical reaction that makes hydrogen peroxide, which may lead to the elimination of cancer cells.
Lab studies have shown the following:
- Treatment with high doses of vitamin C slowed down the growth and spread of prostate, pancreatic, liver, colon, malignant mesathelioma, neuroblastoma, and other types of cancer cells.
- Combining high doses of vitamin C with certain types of chemotherapy may be more effective than chemotherapy along
- Ascorbic acid with arsenic trioxide may be efficient in ovarian cancer cells
- Ascorbic acid with gemcitabine may be efficient in pancreatic cancer cells
- Ascorbic acid with gemicitabine and epigallocatechin-3-galate (EGCG) may be more effective in malignant mesothelioma cells.
- Another lab study also suggested that fusing high-doses of vitamin C with radiation therapy killed more glioblastoma multiforme cells than radiation therapy alone.
- However, not all lab studies which fused vitamin C with anticancer therapies have shown some benefits. Combining dehydroascorbic acid, a particular form of vitamin C, with chemotherapy made it less effective in killing some kinds of cancer cells.
ANIMAL STUDIES
Studies of high dosage of vitamin C has been done in animal models (animals given a disease either the same as or like a disease in humans).
Some of the studies showed that vitamin C helped kill more cancer cells:
- High-dose vitamin C help blocked tumor growth in animal models of pancreatic, liver, prostate, sarcoma and ovarian cancers and malignant mesothelioma.
- High doses of vitamin C combined with chemotherapy in a mouse model of pancreatic cancer showed that the combination treatment helped shrink tumors more than chemotherapy alone.
- Another study also showed that vitamin C made a type of light therapy more effective when used to treat mice injected with breast cancer cells.
- A study in a mouse model of ovarian cancer showed that fusing intravenous high-dose vitamin C with the anticancer drugs carboplatin and paclitaxel made them much more effective in treating ovarian cancer.
For Colon Cancer:
Lab studies have proven that the high doses of vitamin C may help slow down the growth and spread of colon and other different types of cancer cells.
HAVE ANY PRE-CLINICAL (LABORATORY OR ANIMAL) STUDIES BEEN CONDUCTED USING HIGH DOSE VITAMIN C?
Laboratory studies and animal studies have been done to find out if high-dose vitamin C may be useful in the prevention, or even for the treatment, of cancer.
LABORATORY STUDIES
A lot of laboratory studies have been conducted to find out how high doses of vitamin C may cause the death of cancer cells. The anticancer effects of vitamin C in different kinds of cancer cells involves a chemical reaction that makes hydrogen peroxide, which may lead to the elimination of cancer cells.
Lab studies have shown the following:
- Treatment with high doses of vitamin C slowed down the growth and spread of prostate, pancreatic, liver, colon, malignant mesathelioma, neuroblastoma, and other types of cancer cells.
- Combining high doses of vitamin C with certain types of chemotherapy may be more effective than chemotherapy alone
- Ascorbic acid with arsenic trioxide may be efficient in ovarian cancer cells
- Ascorbic acid with gemcitabine may efficient in pancreatic cancer cells
- Ascorbic acid with gemicitabine and epigallocatechin-3-galate (EGCG) may be more effective in getting rid of malignant mesothelioma cells.
- Another lab study also suggested that fusing high-doses of vitamin C with radiation therapy killed more glioblastoma multiforme cells than radiation therapy alone.
- However, not every single lab studies which fused vitamin C with anticancer therapies have shown some benefits. Combining dehydroascorbic acid, a particular form of vitamin C, with chemotherapy made it less effective in killing some kinds of cancer cells.
ANIMAL STUDIES
Studies of high dosage of vitamin C has been done in animal models (animals given a disease either the same as or like a disease in humans).
Some of the studies showed that vitamin C helped kill more cancer cells:
- High-dose vitamin C help blocked tumor growth in animal models of pancreatic, liver, prostate, sarcoma and ovarian cancers and malignant mesothelioma.
- High doses of vitamin C combined with chemotherapy in a mouse model of pancreatic cancer showed that the combination treatment help shrank tumors more than chemotherapy alone.
- Another study also showed that vitamin C made a type of light therapy more effective when used to treat mice injected with breast cancer cells.
- A study in mouse models of ovarian cancer showed that fusing intravenous high-dose vitamin C with the anticancer drugs carboplatin and paclitaxel made them much more effective in treating ovarian cancer.
For Gum Problems:
According to www.perioptotect.com, vitamin C has been used for centuries to stop gum swelling, bleeding and recession. This is backed up by information from www.good-gums.com, which states a 14-week study conducted at the University of California San Francisco, which found the severity of bleeding gums to help increase vitamin C intake lowered, and vice versa.
