Vitamin C could target some common cancers

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Decades There, Nobel chemist Linus Pauling was relegated to the outskirts of medicine after defending the idea that vitamin C could fight a multitude of medical conditions, including cancer. Now a study published online this week by Science reports that vitamin C can kill tumor cells that carry a mutation causing common cancer in mice, can slow the growth of tumors with the mutation . If the results hold in people, the researchers could find a way to treat a wide band tumors that lacked effective drugs. Because high-dose vitamin C is already known to be safe clinical trials to test this idea could move forward quickly.

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