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Article: Vitamins vs. chemotherapy and radiation for cancer therapy.(Clinical report)
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- Townsend Letter
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- August 1, 2009
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We have a general understanding of cancer--one-third of cancer patients die in five years. (1) With present therapies, only slow annual improvement is expected. Vitamins have been extensively demonstrated in clinic trials. (2), (3) Vitamins can strengthen the immune system to improve regular therapies and safely kill cancer. Here we compare cancer therapy by multivitamins with radiation and most chemotherapies. The big question is: Why are we not using vitamins now?
In 1969 the National Cancer Institute showed that oxidized vitamin C (also known as dehydroascorbate or DHA) safely killed cancer cells in vitro but that glucose counteracted the DHA. (4) The late ...