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NIH Study: Injection of High-Dose Vitamin C Slows Tumor Growth

Posted on August 06, 2008

Tumor weight and growth rate has been reduced by about 50 percent in mouse models of brain, ovarian, and pancreatic cancers with injections of high-dose Vitamin C (ascorbate or ascorbic acid).Such were the results reported by the NIH study at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS):The NIH researchers, however, tested the idea that ascorbate, when injected at high doses, may have prooxidant instead of antioxidant activity. Prooxidants would generate free radicals and the formation of hydrogen peroxide, which, the scientists hypothesized, might kill tumor cells.In their labor...

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