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First of all: this post sounds like it’s about medicine, not nutrition.
But secondly, when you say:
>Comprehensive cancer centers like Johns Hopkins, Mayo, and Holden are combining high doses of intravenous vitamin C with other standard treatments to improve outcomes.
…well, here’s what one of those sources, Mayo actually says:
>There’s still no evidence that vitamin C alone can cure cancer, but researchers are studying whether it might boost the effectiveness of other cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy, or reduce treatment side effects.>>There are still no large, controlled clinical trials that have shown a substantial effect of vitamin C on cancer, but some preliminary studies do suggest there may be a benefit to combining standard treatments with high-dose IV vitamin C. Until clinical trials are completed, it’s premature to determine what role vitamin C may play in the treatment of cancer.
Have you considered the possibility that the reason why they are speaking cautiously is because they are meaningfully unsure, as a matter of the facts, whether vitamin C does, in fact, statistically improve outcomes?
Acute studies show positive improvements in biomarkers associated with cancer reduction however long term clinical trials do not show a difference in outcome. The discordance of these results is likely due to methodological issues when one compares a study based on one research method to another. RCTs skew towards positive results, however case-control and other observational studies show no difference.
Barriers such as financing, ethics, and logistics prevent us from performing long term RCTs to form more accurate conclusions.
I wrote a big paper for my MS nutrition program on this issue and cardiovascular disease.
Oh yeah? Tell that to my mom who let a (very successful NYC) nutritionist talk her into having a high concentration of Vitamin C IV hooked up to her weekly, instead of chemo, on the promise that it would eradicate the cancer.
Oh wait, you can’t. She died.
Seeing things like this pisses me off to no end. If my mom went ahead with the chemo right off the bat, she very well could’ve been alive today. By the time she started chemo, it was too late.