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Vitamin C holds blood cancer back.

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2017-09-12 09:19
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Vitamin C holds blood cancer back.

VITAMINC might give cancer treatment a boost – but itwould have to be injected at high doses. Some blood cancers, including chronic leukaemia, often involve problems in a gene called TET2.
The gene usually helps ensure a type of stem cellmatures properly and later dies. Suppressing it allows these cells to divide uncontrollably, leading to cancer.
Vitamin C is knownto keep some kinds of cell replication in check, so Benjamin Neel at the NewYork University School of Medicine probed its effects in mice engineered to have low TET2 activity and a high resulting cancer risk.
They found that very high daily doses of vitamin C for 24weeks slowed the progression of leukaemia. By the end of this period, a control group that got no injections had three times as many white blood cells – a sign of pre-leukaemia (https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23531402-200-vitamin-c-helps-genes-to-kill-off-cells-that-would-cause-cancer/" target="_blank">Cell, doi.org/cbz8).
Neel hopes high doses of vitamin C will become part of cancer therapies, although this would involve injections rather than diet or supplements. “You can’t get the levels of it necessary to achieve the effects in this study by eating oranges,” he says.

Source : New Scientist Sep 2017



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