Vitamin C may enhance radiation therapy for aggressive brain tumors
Friday, February 17, 2012 - 09:30
in Health & Medicine
Recent research by the University of Otago, Wellington has shown that giving brain cancer cells high dose vitamin C makes them much more susceptible to radiation therapy.
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