Developing a cancer drug without Big Pharma: this hospital shows it can be done

Re:Developing a cancer drug without Big Pharma: this hospita... by akoboldfrying on Thursday November 28, 2024 @01:21AM (#42262912)

Thanks for providing a plausible explanation. Do you know of any links (ideally peer- reviewed research) supporting the quick evolution of resistance to vitamin C? If not I'll google around.

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Re:Developing a cancer drug without Big Pharma: this hospita... by cyberax on Thursday November 28, 2024 @03:49PM (#42268433)

That's a generic cancer resistance mechanism. That's why most of cancer treatments fail eventually, the cancer cells evolve to tolerate the levels of chemotherapy agents that are lethal to regular cells.

In the articles linked in this thread, large-dose vitamin C prolonged survival, but didn't clear the cancer. It's exactly what you'd expect from a chemo treatment.

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