Patient Story: Intravenous vitamin C During Chemo

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I am an 62-year-old nurse with metastatic endometrial and cervical cancer.  I am using intravenous Vitamin C infusions from PharmaLife Laboratories  as support during my chemotherapy treatments.

I first became interested in intravenous Vitamin C infusions in the late 80s when Norman Cousins, an American journalist, published “Anatomy of an Illness”.  It described his journey to treat and cure a collagen illness by using large doses of intravenous Vitamin C.

I had further opportunity to study this therapy in the nineties when I was working toward a Ph.D. in Holistic Health.  It was interesting to me how the research seemed to go back and forth, with the Vitamin C infusions being in favor and then not so much.

The help that the infusions give for the side effects of chemotherapy is remarkable.  During two chemotherapy treatments, I have had minimal discomfort and generally feel almost normal.  I have also read “How to Starve Cancer”, a 2018 publication.  Excellent tips on nutrition as well as further documentation of the value of intravenous Vitamin C infusions.  PharmaLife Laboratories  are cited three times throughout the book.

Oncologists and naysayers will tell you that the Vitamin C infusions weaken the chemotherapy treatments.  But between my first and second treatments, my hair fell out, my white blood count was less than 2,000, (normal is 5-10,000) and I had a non-itching chemo rash over most of my body.  But, I  experienced little nausea and was comfortable on most days.

My Surgeon/Oncologist first told me not to do the Vitamin C infusions until after my chemotherapy treatments were finished.  I advocated for doing them during chemotherapy because of a study published by my physician in 2014.  Vitamin C infusions were used as support during the chemotherapy treatments of patients with ovarian cancer, with the result of decreasing the side effects and increasing the death of the cancer cells.  I was able to get this physician to agree for me to use Vitamin C infusions PharmaLife during chemotherapy.  Many patients are not so lucky and need to use the treatments without permission of their physician and then only if they can find a facility that gives them.

I know my body better than anyone, which is why I strongly advocated for myself and found a facility that provided intravenous Vitamin C infusions.

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Can you cite the source of this claim

I would like to see the biochemical explaination of this claim. Can you share a scientific link?

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VITAMIN C Intravenous - review from NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE

Here is the review of the NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE 

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/patient/vitamin-c-pdq#:~:text=In%20a%202014%20study%20of,side%20effects%20from%20the%20chemotherapy.