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New Insights on Vitamin C and Cancer

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Cancer Research Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1890-4

ISBN: 978-1-4939-1889-8

Publisher: Springer New York - Springer Journals

Sep 19, 2014

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Chapter 1Overview of Vitamin C and Cancer

Gonzalez, Michael J.; Miranda-Massari, Jorge R.

Pages: 1 –15

[In 1536, the French explorer Jacques Cartier, while exploring the St. Lawrence River, used the local natives’ herbal medicine knowledge to save his men who were dying of scurvy. He boiled the needles of the arbor vitae tree to make the healing tea (that was later shown to contain about 50 mg of...
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Chapter 2Anticancer Mechanisms of Vitamin C

Gonzalez, Michael J.; Miranda-Massari, Jorge R.

Pages: 17 –26

[Vitamin C is considered a very strong reductant and radical scavenger. Vitamin C reduces unstable oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur radicals.]
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Chapter 3Potential Therapeutics for Vitamin C and Cancer

Gonzalez, Michael J.; Miranda-Massari, Jorge R.

Pages: 27 –55

[High-dose vitamin C has proven to be cytotoxic to a wide variety of cancer cell lines (Fain et al. in BMJ 316:1661–1662, 1998; Mayland et al. in Palliat Med 19(1):17–20, 2005; Agus et al. in Cancer Res 59:4555–4558, 1999; Prasad et al. in J Am Coll Nutr 18:13–25, 1999; Hart in Alt Complement...

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