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Article: Vitamins, cancer and hope.
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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Chemotherapy and radiation are standard but even with them, one-third of cancer patients die in five years. Can we improve these therapies? Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD, (1) a physician who had earned his PhD in vitamins and is the author of Vitamin C and Cancer, chose diet and vitamins to combat the weakening caused by the usual therapies. One of Hoffer's early patients had failed pancreatic surgery although a bypass was installed. Her doctor offered no hope. But she had hope. She knew that Norman Cousins (Anatomy of an Illness) had recovered after his doctors had given up. Cousins had used 15,000 mg/day of vitamin C. Hoffer gave her vitamin C at 35,000 mg/day plus other ...