Vitamin C injections slow tumor growth in mice

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Cancer  Sun, 08/03/2008 - 23:00

(NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) High-dose injections of vitamin C, also known as ascorbate or ascorbic acid, reduced tumor weight and growth rate by about 50 percent in mouse models of brain, ovarian and pancreatic cancers, researchers from the National Institutes of Health report in the August 5, 2008, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The researchers traced ascorbate's anti-cancer effect to the formation of hydrogen peroxide in the extracellular fluid surrounding the tumors.

Normal cells were unaffected.

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