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Published on: January 7, 2015
Intravenous vitamin C as a chemotherapy agent: a report on clinical cases
Hugh D Riordan1, Neil H Riordan, James A Jackson
1Center for the Improvement of Human Functioning, RENAC Project, Wichita, KS, USA.
Abstract:
A series of seven cases are presented in which intravenous vitamin C has been used as antineoplastic agent in the treatment of different types of cancers. The cancers cases reviewed are the following: Renal cell carcinoma (2), Colorectal cancer (1), Pancreatic cancer (1), Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (2) and breast cancer (1). Toxic reactions were not observed at these high doses of intravenous Vitamin C. All patients were prescreened for Glucose 6--phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency before administering intravenous Vitamin C in order to prevent hemolysis.
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