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Re:Vitamin C kills tumor cells with hard-to-treat mutation i... by Devid2014 on Monday November 09, 2015 @10:57AM (#10533730)
There are really many types of chancer, and Vitamin C (if confirmed) seems to help only from some types of it.

So that he died of cancer say absolutely nothing about Vitamin C.

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Re:Vitamin C kills tumor cells with hard-to-treat mutation i... by chc on Monday November 09, 2015 @01:22PM (#10534742)
It certainly says that vitamin C doesn't cure all cancers.
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Re:Vitamin C kills tumor cells with hard-to-treat mutation i... by majkinetor on Monday November 09, 2015 @04:00PM (#10535814)
Right, but almost all cancers depend on this pathway. GLUT receptor mega overexpression is a milestone in cancer evolution and vitamin C in its oxidized form competes with glucose which is in cancer cells almost exclusive energy source.
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