A Warning About Treating Cancer With High-Dose Vit...
Breast Cancer
A Warning About Treating Cancer With High-Dose Vitamin C
A remarkable number of women with breast cancer come to their oncologist asking about high doses of vitamin C as an alternative treatment for their disease.
While integrative medicine certainly has a place in maintaining a healthy lifestyle, there is no concrete proof that high-dose vitamin C is an effective cancer treatment. In addition to being ineffective, delaying standard treatment to try something like vitamin infusions could turn a curable disease into an incurable one. It’s important to remember that time is of the essence when it comes to treating many cancers.
“I personally have never had a patient who has taken high-dose vitamin C instead of chemotherapy and been cured of their cancer,” SurvivorNet medical adviser and medical oncologist Dr. Elizabeth Comen says. That being said, there are patients who report shrinking tumors after high-dose vitamin C infusions, and that is truly amazing. But the data to prove this is an effective treatment is simply not there.
Learn more about SurvivorNet's rigorous medical review process.
A remarkable number of women with breast cancer come to their oncologist asking about high doses of vitamin C as an alternative treatment for their disease.
While integrative medicine certainly has a place in maintaining a healthy lifestyle, there is no concrete proof that high-dose vitamin C is an effective cancer treatment. In addition to being ineffective, delaying standard treatment to try something like vitamin infusions could turn a curable disease into an incurable one. It’s important to remember that time is of the essence when it comes to treating many cancers.
“I personally have never had a patient who has taken high-dose vitamin C instead of chemotherapy and been cured of their cancer,” SurvivorNet medical adviser and medical oncologist Dr. Elizabeth Comen says. That being said, there are patients who report shrinking tumors after high-dose vitamin C infusions, and that is truly amazing. But the data to prove this is an effective treatment is simply not there.
Learn more about SurvivorNet's rigorous medical review process.
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