Intravenous vitamin C produces millimolar ascorbate concentrations in blood and tissues killing cancer cells without harming normal tissues...so says new work published in the journal Science Translational Medcine on Sciencemag. This is another study that would seem to support Linus Pauling - the only person to be awarded two [unshared] Nobel Prizes and one of only two people to be awarded Nobel Prizes in different fields who also has the supreme plaudit of the fact that in 1931, when Albert Einstein was asked what he thought of Pauling's work "The Nature of the Chemical Bond", he apparently shrugged his shoulders and said "It was too complicated for me". Pauling reported that vitamin C given intravenously was effective in treating cancer, this was back in 1971 (of course this was not without its critics). The BBC reports. Now one would ask why not much has been done since but we're told 'pharmaceutical companies are unlikely to run trials, as vitamins cannot be patented'. Ah-ha, money. Cure cancer, sure, but not for free.
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"Because vitamin C has no patent potential, its development will not be supported by pharmaceutical companies," said lead researcher Qi Chen."
On the face of it that quote is shocking but Pharma companies are there to make money for their shareholders aren't they, not to take the place of tax payer funded investment. My old doctor told me back in the 1990's that the the technology was there but not the will and when my brother was in hospital with cancer one of his doctors told him that there were always companies holding back from 'curing cancer' because they couldn't make any profits from it.
sad but true, as you say "shocking"!
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