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Vitamin C Boosts Epidermal Growth via DNA Demethylation

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134 points gnabgib | 1 comments | 02 Jul 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.406s | source
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sydbarrett74 ◴[03 Jul 25 09:48 UTC] No.44453340[source]▶
With conflicting evidence that vitamin C may promote tumour growth, how much study has been done as to whether this might exacerbate skin cancer?
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1. inkyoto ◴[03 Jul 25 11:18 UTC] No.44453847[source]▶
… coffee is good for you, coffee is bad for you. Table salt is bad for you, table salt is good for you. Red wine is good for you, red wine is bad for you. We have gone a full circle on each of those so many times.

Linus Pauling used IV injections of vitamin C in 1970's to treat terminal cancer tumours, subsequent studies in 1990's failed to reproduce the effect so it was abandoned (and discredited), and over the past decade the interest has rekindled the research and phase 3 trial is underway for high dose IV injections of vitamin C as adjuvant therapy for pancreatic and solid cancer tumours[0].

[0] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12094-024-03553-x

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