• Researchers Achieve Cancer-Killing Effect With Oral-Dose Vitamin C

    Posted January 15, 2010: by Bill Sardi

    In an overlooked study first published in 2008, for the first time, using a special liposomal form of oral-dose vitamin C, researchers in Britain demonstrated it is possible to achieve cancer-killing blood concentrations of this vitamin without undesirable side effects.

    Heretofore, National Institutes of Health Researchers claimed the maximal concentration of vitamin C that can be achieved following oral intake is not sufficient to produce a cancer-killing effect. Now British researchers demonstrate they were able to achieve blood concentrations of vitamin C that were twice what was incorrectly reported to be maximal, and in the range of what is known to be selectively toxic to tumor cells, yet not harmful to healthy cells.

    Studies with various forms of cancer show a 30%-to-50% cancer cell-killing effect at the same blood concentration of vitamin C achieved in this study. For comparison, anti-cancer drugs are approved by the FDA if they achieve 50% tumor shrinkage.

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  • Turning Off the Cancer Switch

    Posted December 28, 2009: by Bill Sardi

    Cancer researchers now recognize that molecular signals sent to healthy cells can convert them to tumor cells and that blockage of these “cancer signals” may put an abrupt halt to tumor growth.

    Researchers now think they have found the precise molecular switch that “turns on” cancer, and this suggests an antidote to cancer may soon be at hand.

    “Cancer research is on the verge of an important change in direction,” says a recent report. “The Warburg Effect returns to the cancer stage,” says another report.

    The Warburg Effect — you mean that eight-decades-old research conducted by German biochemist Otto Warburg, for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1931? This means cancer researchers may have actually lost ground in their war against cancer by largely dismissing Warburg’s observations first reported in 1926.

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