A team of Johns Hopkins scientists have shown that in mice at least, vitamin C - and potentially other antioxidants - can indeed inhibit the growth of some tumors.
The Cancer Breakthrough Handbook on Vitamin C Therapy for Patients and Doctors by Steve Hickey and Hilary Roberts:
"There was something odd about the results of the experiments Linus Pauling reported in the 1980s: patients lived longer - much longer. Those treated with vitamin C lived an average of four times as long as control patients who did not receive vitamin C. This massive improvement was unparalleled in the history of medicine"
Changes of terminal cancer patients' health-related quality of life after high dose vitamin C administration...
In functional scale, the patients reported significantly higher scores for physical, role, emotional, and cognitive function after administration of vitamin C (p
Vitamin C reduces the formation of potentially carcinogenic nitrogen-containing compounds in the stomach, offering protection from stomach cancer, researchers have reported. - However, C taken with lipids may lower benefit...
Vitamin C Shown to Reduce The Risk of Mouth Cancer
FDA OKs vitamin C trial for cancer at Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
Large study finds vitamin C protective of stomach cancer.
But when the researchers examined the blood levels of vitamin C they found a strong protective effect. That is: they found that those subjects with the highest level of vitamin C in their blood had a 60 percent lower risk of stomach cancer than those subjects with the lowest levels.