Promising cancer therapy treatment: Vitamin C

Thursday, February 6, 2014 - 01:00 in Health & Medicine

New research suggests that vitamin C might make cancer drugs more effective. But past discredited claims about the vitamin's effectiveness in treating cancer are likely to hinder further study.Scientists have identified a simple, inexpensive compound that made cancer drugs more effective in mice and helped human patients weather the toxic side effects of chemotherapy.

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