Vitamin c, the common cold and the flu by linus pauling 1977 0201 linus pauling on. Several studies showed that vitamin c given by mouth made bortezomib less effective, including in multiple myeloma cells. Intravenous highdose vitamin c in cancer therapy national. Cancer and vitamin c by ewan cameron and linus pauling. Vitamin c linus pauling institute oregon state university. Dr pauling lays out the case for vitamin c so clearly and thoroughly that you would have to be a fool to disagree with the multitude of carefully presented scientific studies that show the clear benefits of c for the common cold, cancer, wounds, and mental issues. Highdose vitamin c pdq pdq cancer information summaries. The european investigation into cancer and nutrition epicnorfolk prospective cohort study investigated the relationship between. In 1979 cameron and linus pauling coauthored the book cancer and vitamin c. It began in 1972, when ewan cameron hypothesized that ascorbate could have anticancer action by inhibiting hyaluronidase and thereby preventing cancer spread after pauling had first proposed that taking 1,000 mg of vitamin c daily can reduce the incidence of colds by 45% for most people. Vitamin c as a prevention from cancer nobel prize winner linus pauling.
By 1970, the year that linus pauling published vitamin c and the common cold, the federal governments war on cancer was soon to arrive. Cameron and pauling wrote many technical papers and a popular book, cancer and vitamin c, that. Vitamin c as a prevention from cancer nobel prize winner. How linus pauling duped america into believing vitamin c cures. Vitamin c, the common cold and the flu by linus pauling. The national cancer act, passed in 1971, increased federal funding for treatment and prevention research, embracing cytotoxic treatment solutions like chemotherapy. A discussion of the nature, causes, prevention, and treatment of cancer with special reference to the value of vitamin c camino books isbn 094015921x. Cancer and vitamin c ewan cameron, linus pauling on. This series contains both a manuscript of the book as well as documents pertaining to its writing and publication. This new edition has an updated preface and appendices authored by stephen lawson. Linus pauling, a worldrenowned chemist and twotime nobel prize laureate, strongly advocated that megadose quantities of vitamin c above. Combining vitamin c with an anticancer drug called bortezomib has been studied in cell cultures and in animal models.
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