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Article: FDA approves trial of intravenous vitamin C for anti-cancer therapy.(In The NEWS)(Report)
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- May 1, 2007
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Last fall, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first clinical trial in the US to study whether high doses of intravenous vitamin C are safe and effective in the fight against cancer.
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For decades, medicine has been looking at the effects of varying doses of vitamin C against cancer. Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling popularized the use of vitamin C supplements during the 1970s. (1)
Scientific studies have shown that high doses of vitamin C have had significant anti-cancer effects in some animal models. (2) Other early clinical research has demonstrated that intravenous doses ...