University of Otago, Christchurch
March 1 2021
Cancerous colon tumours removed from patients given high dose vitamin C infusions before surgery retained the vitamin – a key piece of information in the search for evidence of the vitamin’s possible role in cancer treatment.
The world-first study was carried out by researchers and clinicians at the University of Otago, Christchurch and the Canterbury District Health Board, and published in the Frontiers in Oncology journal. It is the first to show that high doses of vitamin C, also called ascorbate, actually get inside tumours. The researchers are now studying patients with other cancers to see if vitamin C also infiltrates them.
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