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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999 91(24):2073-2075; doi:10.1093/jnci/91.24.2073
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 91, No. 24, 2073-2075, December 15, 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

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Cancer Treatment And Vitamin C: The Debate Lingers

Nicole Gottlieb

In the 1980s, Nobel laureate Linus Pauling, Ph.D., and researchers at the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation in Rochester, Minn., clashed publicly over the merits of vitamin C in treating cancer. While Pauling maintained that terminal cancer patients who took vitamin C daily lived three to four times longer than patients who did not take vitamin C supplements, Mayo researchers — in three studies — concluded that vitamin C supplementation had no advantage over placebo therapy.



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  		Dr. Linus Pauling Photo by Dick Willoughby. Courtesy of the Linus Pauling Institute.

 
Fifteen years later, vitamin C continues to stir controversy. But the focus now is not whether vitamin C alone brings a survival edge, but whether it bolsters or undermines many standard cancer therapies.

In one camp are physicians like David Golde, M.D., physician-in-chief of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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