How Vitamin C Injestion Cures Cancer Cells - New Study

Scientists have disclosed that high dose of Vitamin C can fight cancer cells. This are the findings of a new study published in the journal ‘Redox Biology’.
According to the researchers from the University of Iowa, UI, giving vitamin C intravenously and bypassing normal gut metabolism and excretion pathways — creates blood levels that are 100 to 500 times higher than levels seen with oral ingestion.
This super-high concentration in the blood is crucial to vitamin C’s ability to attack cancer cells, they added. It is estimated that over 100,000 new cancer cases are recorded annually in Nigeria but majority of cases however, are presented very late when nothing could be done by health care providers to save the lives of affected persons.
However, Physicians at UI Hospitals and Clinics are now testing the positive impact of the Vitamin C approach in clinical trials for pancreatic and lung cancers that combine highdose, intravenous vitamin C with standard chemotherapy or radiation.
Earlier phase 1 trials indicated this treatment was safe and well-tolerated and hinted that the therapy improves patient outcomes.
The current, larger trials aim to determine if the treatment improves survival. According to a ‘sciencedaily’ report, the study shows that Vitamin C breaks down easily, generating hydrogen peroxide, a so-called reactive oxygen species that can damage tissue and DNA.
The study also shows that tumour cells are much less capable of removing the damaging hydrogen peroxide than normal cells. Normal cells have several ways to remove hydrogen peroxide, keeping it at very low levels, so it does not cause damage.
The new study shows that an enzyme called catalase is the central route for removing hydrogen peroxide generated by decomposing vitamin C.
The researchers discovered that cells with lower amounts of catalase activity were more susceptible to damage and death when they were exposed to high amounts of vitamin C.