Therapeutic Use of Vitamin C in Cancer: Physiological Considerations

• Main Authors: Francisco J. Roa (Author), Eduardo Peña (Author), Marcell Gatica (Author), Kathleen Escobar-Acuña (Author), Paulina Saavedra (Author), Mafalda Maldonado (Author), Magdalena E. Cuevas (Author), Gustavo Moraga-Cid (Author), Coralia I. Rivas (Author), Carola Muñoz-Montesino (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Since the early studies of William J. McCormick in the 1950s, vitamin C has been proposed as a candidate for the treatment of cancer. A number of reports have shown that pharmacological concentrations of vitamin C selectively kill cancer cells in vitro and decrease the growth rates of a number of hu...