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(NaturalNews) A half century ago, Linus Pauling began his pioneering research into how
vitamin C impacts health (http://www.naturalnews.com/025802.html).
Now, almost 25 years after Pauling's death, a new study backs up his contention that
vitamin C has remarkable healing and protective benefits. In fact, now scientists
have discovered how vitamin C may put the brakes on the growth of cancer cells.
Margreet Vissers, associate professor at the University of Otago's Free Radical Research
Group in New Zealand, headed the
study which was just published in the journal Cancer Research. "Our results offer a promising and simple
intervention to help in our fight against cancer,
at the level of both prevention and cure," Dr.Vissers said in a statement to the
press.
She pointed out that the role of vitamin
C in cancer treatment has been debated for years, with many anecdotal accounts
claiming vitamin C can help in both the prevention and treatment of cancer. In earlier
studies conducted by Dr. Vissers, she demonstrated the vitamin's importance in keeping
cells healthy. And these findings suggested that vitamin C might be able to limit diseases
such as cancer that involve cells that go haywire. In the case of a malignancy, for
example, cells have unregulated growth.
So Dr. Vissers and her New Zealand research
team decided to investigate whether vitamin C levels were lower in patients with endometrial tumors. They also looked to see whether
these low vitamin C levels correlated with the aggressiveness of a malignancy and the
resistance of a tumor to medical therapy.
The results? Tumors were less able to accumulate vitamin C when compared with normal
healthy tissue and a lack of vitamin C allowed tumors to survive and grow more easily.
Tumors with low vitamin C levels were found to contain more of a protein dubbed HIF-1
which helps cancer thrive and spread, even under conditions of stress.
The findings are important because they provide evidence for the first time of a
relationship between HIF-1 and levels of vitamin C levels in cancerous tumors. And it
appears treating cancer patients with adequate amounts of vitamin C might well reduce
HIF-1, help limit the rate of tumor growth and increase the responsiveness to tumors to
therapy. Vitamin C might even prevent the formation of solid tumors in the first place,
according to Dr. Vissers media statement. (Natural News,
8.11.2010, S. L. Baker) http://www.naturalnews.com/z029434_vitamin_C_cancer.html
For more information:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/...
http://www.naturalnews.com/024357_v...
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