Originally published September 26 2005
Research suggests vitamin C injections could be key to fighting cancer
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
According to The Daily Mail, researches from the National Institutes of Health in Maryland have found that injecting high doses of vitamin C, in the form of ascorbate, directly into a bloodstream killed cancer cells in a laboratory setting.
However the researchers point out that those trials only investigated orally taken vitamins.
In the latest study a US team led by Dr Mark Levine, from the National Institutes of Health in Maryland, conducted laboratory experiments which simulated clinical infusions of vitamin C.
Cultures of a range of nine cancer and four normal cell types were studied by exposing them to high doses of ascorbate.
In five of the cancer lines, there was a 50 per cent decrease in cell survival, while normal cells were unaffected.
A more detailed look at lymphoma cells - which were especially sensitive to ascorbate - showed they were either destroyed directly or induced to commit "cell suicide".
Further tests revealed that the growth of cells exposed to vitamin C was reduced by at least 99 per cent.
The effective dose was less than four millimoles, a concentration much higher than an oral dose but easily achievable by intravenous infusion.
Why it killed cancer cells but not normal cells was unknown, said the researchers.
It was possible the hydrogen peroxide caused damage that was repaired in normal cells but not in sensitive cancer cells.
The presence of hydrogen peroxide suggested possible applications other than fighting cancer.
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