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Article: Two anticancer mechanisms of vitamins in humans a review.
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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Abstract
Recent literature explains why vitamin C has been both successful and unsuccessful at extending the life of cancer patients. Vitamin C at 10,000 mg/day was effective in the form of sodium ascorbate but not as dry ascorbic acid. The ascorbate solution oxidizes to dehydroascorbate that readily and preferably enters cancer cells and kills them.
However, Abram Hoffer achieved excellent results with ascorbic acid. Hoffer found dry ascorbic acid with other vitamins effective at 12,000 mg/day when used with regular therapies of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Hoffer primarily used vitamins A, B, C and E plus zinc and selenium. The combination ...