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Cancer and vitamin C / edited by Qi Chen, Margreet C.M. Vissers.

Contributor(s): Chen, Qi [editor.] | Vissers, Margreet C. M. (Margreet Catherina Maria) [editor.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Publisher: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, [2020]Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xii, 174 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 1003017495; 9781000028027; 100002802X; 9781000027792; 1000027791; 9781000027563; 1000027562; 9781003017493Subject(s): Vitamin C -- Therapeutic use | Cancer -- Chemotherapy | MEDICAL / Biochemistry | MEDICAL / Oncology | SCIENCE / Life Sciences / BiochemistryDDC classification: 616.99/4061 LOC classification: RC271.A78 | C36 2020ebOnline resources: Taylor & Francis | OCLC metadata license agreement
Contents:
Part I Historical Overview of Cancer and Vitamin C. 1. Introduction to Vitamin C and Cancer Clinical Studies: A Historical Perspective. Part II Mechanims of Action for Vitamin C in Cancer. 2. High-Dose Intravenous Ascorbate as a Pro-Oxidant Inducing Cancer Cell Death. 3. Pharmacological Ascorbate Influences Multiple Cellular Pathways Preferentially in Cancer Cells. 4. Ascorbate and the Hypoxic Response in Cancer. 5. Pharmacological Ascorbate as a Radiosensitizer. 6. Vitamin C and Somatic Cell Reprogramming. Part III Vitamin C and Cancer Clinical Studies. 7. Vitamin C and Cancer: An Overview of Recent Clinical Trials. 8. Orthomolecular Approaches for the Use of Intravenous Vitamin C: Administration by Integrative and Naturopathic Doctors.
Summary: Vitamin C may offer significant therapeutic benefits in the treatment of cancer. This book includes chapters by a group of leading scientific researchers documenting the ways cancer can be affected by high doses of ascorbate. After an initial chapter providing a historical perspective, subsequent chapters focus on cancer cell death, reprogramming of somatic cells, recent case studies, and other ways vitamin C can improve outcomes of therapy. Features Includes chapters from a team of leading international scholars Reviews the history of beneficial uses of vitamin C in the treatment of cancer Summarizes recent case studies Discusses how vitamin C may synergistically affect other cancer treatment methods
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Part I Historical Overview of Cancer and Vitamin C. 1. Introduction to Vitamin C and Cancer Clinical Studies: A Historical Perspective. Part II Mechanims of Action for Vitamin C in Cancer. 2. High-Dose Intravenous Ascorbate as a Pro-Oxidant Inducing Cancer Cell Death. 3. Pharmacological Ascorbate Influences Multiple Cellular Pathways Preferentially in Cancer Cells. 4. Ascorbate and the Hypoxic Response in Cancer. 5. Pharmacological Ascorbate as a Radiosensitizer. 6. Vitamin C and Somatic Cell Reprogramming. Part III Vitamin C and Cancer Clinical Studies. 7. Vitamin C and Cancer: An Overview of Recent Clinical Trials. 8. Orthomolecular Approaches for the Use of Intravenous Vitamin C: Administration by Integrative and Naturopathic Doctors.

Vitamin C may offer significant therapeutic benefits in the treatment of cancer. This book includes chapters by a group of leading scientific researchers documenting the ways cancer can be affected by high doses of ascorbate. After an initial chapter providing a historical perspective, subsequent chapters focus on cancer cell death, reprogramming of somatic cells, recent case studies, and other ways vitamin C can improve outcomes of therapy. Features Includes chapters from a team of leading international scholars Reviews the history of beneficial uses of vitamin C in the treatment of cancer Summarizes recent case studies Discusses how vitamin C may synergistically affect other cancer treatment methods

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