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Vitamin C Megadoses May Interfere With Cancer Drugs

Posted October 03, 2008 10:14 AM

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A preliminary study has shown that large doses of vitamin C may decrease the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs, bringing new confusion into the debate over whether vitamin C supplements can help or harm cancer patients. In the study, researchers treated cancer cells with very high doses of vitamin C and then tried to kill the cells with various cancer drugs; they found that all the drugs were less effective on the pretreated cancer cells than on cells that had received no vitamin dose.

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Re: Vitamin C Megadoses May Interfere With Cancer Drugs

10/04/2008 1:37 AM

Of course Vitamin C interferes with Anti-Cancer drugs.

Cancer itself is not the disease, but is a symptom of a much larger problem.

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Re: Vitamin C Megadoses May Interfere With Cancer Drugs

10/06/2008 8:52 AM

Vitamin C has many effects in the body. Perhaps its most important is helping the body to handle pathogens and their toxins. It's no surprise, then, that it "interferes" with chemotherapy, since chemotherapy drugs are toxins which, although they may "target" cancer cells, are nonetheless harmful to healthy cells too. Ask any chemo patient how he/she feels after therapy. I've heard it described as "hammered crap", "wiped out", "poisoned", etc.

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Re: Vitamin C Megadoses May Interfere With Cancer Drugs

10/06/2008 11:30 AM

Good response. I'd also be interested in any studies re vitamin C, and other anti-oxidants, vs. radiation therapy for cancer patients. One would think that effective radiation would also generate a lot of radicals in the body.

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