Can Vitamin C Really Treat Cancer?

January 18, 2009

Sunday, January 18, 2009

(http://ovariancervicaluterinecancerinfo1.blogspot.com/2009/01/can-vitamin-c-rea\

lly-treat-cancer.html)

[EXCERPTS FROM ARTICLE]

[bottom line: " Precise answers on the effectiveness of the intravenous Vitamin

C will only come from larger trials in the future. " ]

MICE

In a recent study, researchers led by Mark Levine, of the National

Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in Bethesda,

land, gave Vitamin C to MICE intravenously. The researchers injected

immune-deficient mice with cells from three aggressive human cancers: ovarian,

pancreatic tumors and a form of brain cancer called glioblastoma. They found

that the Vitamin C injections slowed tumor growth by up to 53%.

Levine explained that by injecting the Vitamin C into the bloodstream, it is

possible to get much larger amounts of vitamin to a tumor than is possible with

oral supplements.

Although vitamin C is usually an antioxidant, under these circumstances it acts

as an oxidation boost that kills cancer cells.

He also suggests that these Vitamin C injections be added to the conventional

cancer therapy. They also noted that there were woman in a preliminary clinical

trial getting the same doses of vitamin C as those seen in the experimental

mice.

HUMANS

This trial, led by Jeanne Drisko of the University of Kansas City, aims to

recruit fifty women to test the safety of giving intravenous vitamin C, plus

other antioxidants given orally, on top of existing therapies for ovarian,

cervical or uterine cancer.

Though there is only little evidence that this works in humans,

the clinicians at Drisko's clinic will administer the injections to all

patients willing to pay for it....

Precise answers on the effectiveness of the intravenous Vitamin C will only

come from larger trials in the future.

DCA

Unfortunately, it has come to the researchers' attention that desperate cancer

patients are self medicating with an inexpensive compound that has not yet to

be tested in humans called Dichloroacetate (DCA). Despite the warnings of toxic

poisonings and even after researchers from the University of Alberta, who used

the chemical to shrink tumors in rats that later died, the practice

continues.

It is due to this fact that the researchers are afraid to report their findings

to the public as they fear they will start injecting themselves with Vitamin C

without medical supervision. There are large numbers of cancer patients that

take antioxidant vitamins without telling their doctors. While some

complementary approaches suggest that antioxidants can reduce side effects,

conventional chemotherapy and radiotherapy are thought to work in part by

generating free radicals which kill cancer

January 19, 2009

In January of last year I began high-dose Vitamin C IVs once a week, 7.5 g

vitamin C per IV, at a cost of $160 per IV, which I got reimbursed for under my

healthcare flexable spending account. When you think about the cost of chemo,

even your copay for it, this is a drop in the bucket! In March of last year, my

CT scan showed the cancer starting to receed and some of the enlarged lymph

nodes starting to shrink. I did this treatment alone with Bill 's

protocol, which I still follow to this day, for several months, until April,

when I was hospitalized with a bowel obstruction, not related to my Hodgkin's

lymphoma. I was in the hospital a week so you can all imagine the amount of

needles I endured. I have bad veins to begin with, due to my first cancer bout

in 2001, where I was pretty much a human pin cushion for about 1 1/2 years.

Needless to say, after the April hospital stint, I had no veins left. One blood

draw every 6 weeks

takes upwards of 5-6 needle sticks in both arms, before one will give any

blood.

Anyway, a couple of months ago, Bill 's newletter introduced a

liposomal vitamin C product with 1000 mg Vitamin C that acts like 10 g given

intervenously because of its bioavailabilty. There is a short video on it on

the LivOn Labs website which is worth the watch. This past month, Bill updated

the original article with the following:

TWO CHEAPER SOURCES FOR LIPOSOMAL VITAMIN C?

After my November 20th article on liposomal Vitamin C (see " Newsletter

Archive " ), I received two e-mails telling of cheaper sources for this

wonderfully " bio-available " form of Vitamin C.

First, Ed Brenner sent me information on an 8-ounce liquid bottle sold at Dr.

Donsbach's web site. It is called " #614 Liposomal vitamin C. " You can buy it at

www.LetsTalkHealth.com The 8 ounce bottle contains 80 grams of the Vitamin C for

$34.30 (club price). You can easily join his " club. " For comparison, the " Lipo-

Spheric Vitamin C " sold by LivOn Labs has 30 grams for $39.95. That's 43 cents

per gram from Dr. Donsbach compared to $1.32 per gram from LivOn Labs. If you

don't mind taking it in liquid instead of the gel form, you might want to look

into buying it from the web site above.

Just as a reminder, one gram of Vitamin C in this " liposomal " form is the

equivalent of about 10 grams of intravenous (IV) Vitamin C.

For those of you who prefer the gel form, Steve Spacek is selling the same

product as that from LivOn Labs for $10 less. Just go to www.spacek.com and look

under the tab " Health Helps. " Steve's wife died of her cancer earlier this year.

Steve continues to use the lessons they learned during her 5-year struggle to

help others. He sent me the following information on a Vitamin D3 source:

" The other item I wanted to address is Vitamin D-3. I have been using a product

by Healthy Origins. It has 360 softgels per bottle. The potency is 2400 IU and

one bottle sells for $11.10. The direct link is: www.iherb.com. If you use the

coupon/referral code 'PAC317' during checkout you will receive an instant $5.00

off your first order. If you use this code after making your first order, you

can then log into your account, get your own referral code and earn upwards of

10% commissions.

Needless to say, I have been using the LivOn Labs product for about 2 1/2 months

now as a replacement for my IVs and my veins couldn't be happier. When I was

first diagnosed with a recurrence of HL, I read an article by Dr. n

Whittaker entitled " If I had Cancer. " One of the things he stated was that he

would take 10g vitamin C per day, which is what got me started on the IV vitamin

C. I also read about it in Ty Bollinger's book, " Cancer - Think Outside the

Box. " He includes it in a chapter about top 7 treatments for Stage 4 cancers.

If anyone would like that excerpt, email me and I'll copy it into a response.

Debbie

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Subject: [ ] Can Vitamin C Really Treat Cancer?

Date: Sunday, January 18, 2009, 1:20 PM

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Can Vitamin C Really Treat Cancer?

(http://ovariancervi caluterinecancer info1.blogspot. com/2009/ 01/can-vitamin-

c-really- treat-cancer. html)

[EXCERPTS FROM ARTICLE]

[bottom line: " Precise answers on the effectiveness of the intravenous Vitamin C

will only come from larger trials in the future. " ]