Can Intravenous Vitamin C Cure Cancer?

Vitamin C is essential to humans who, unlike other mammals, do not make their own. Intravenously (IV) administered ascorbic acid (vitamin C) began appearing in published studies in 1950.

But it wasn’t until 1995 that Hugh Riordan and colleagues noted in Medical Hypotheses that, “Given in high enough doses to maintain plasma concentrations above levels that have been shown to be toxic to tumor cells in vitro, ascorbic acid has the potential to selectively kill tumor cells in a manner similar to other tumor cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents.

Most studies of ascorbic acid and cancer to date have …read more