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Why Vitamin C Could Be an Excellent Complementary Remedy to Conventional Therapies for Breast Cancer

The most frequent cancer in women is breast cancer, which is a major cause of death. Currently, there are many pharmacological therapies that have made possible the cure and resolution of this tumor. However, these therapies are accompanied by numerous collateral effects that influence the quality o...

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Autor principal: Codini, Michela
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7664876/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33182353
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21218397
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description The most frequent cancer in women is breast cancer, which is a major cause of death. Currently, there are many pharmacological therapies that have made possible the cure and resolution of this tumor. However, these therapies are accompanied by numerous collateral effects that influence the quality of life (QoL) of the patients to varying degrees. For this reason, attention is turning to the use of complementary medicine to improve QoL. In particular, there are increased trials of intravenous injection of vitamin C at high doses to enhance the antitumor activity of drugs and/or decrease their side effects. This review intends to underline the anticancer mechanisms of vitamin C that could explain its efficacy for treating breast cancer, and why the use of vitamin C at high doses could help patients with breast cancer to enhance the efficacy of pharmacological therapies and/or decrease their side effects.
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spelling pubmed-76648762020-11-14 Why Vitamin C Could Be an Excellent Complementary Remedy to Conventional Therapies for Breast Cancer Codini, Michela Int J Mol Sci Review The most frequent cancer in women is breast cancer, which is a major cause of death. Currently, there are many pharmacological therapies that have made possible the cure and resolution of this tumor. However, these therapies are accompanied by numerous collateral effects that influence the quality of life (QoL) of the patients to varying degrees. For this reason, attention is turning to the use of complementary medicine to improve QoL. In particular, there are increased trials of intravenous injection of vitamin C at high doses to enhance the antitumor activity of drugs and/or decrease their side effects. This review intends to underline the anticancer mechanisms of vitamin C that could explain its efficacy for treating breast cancer, and why the use of vitamin C at high doses could help patients with breast cancer to enhance the efficacy of pharmacological therapies and/or decrease their side effects. MDPI 2020-11-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7664876/ /pubmed/33182353 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21218397 Text en © 2020 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_short Why Vitamin C Could Be an Excellent Complementary Remedy to Conventional Therapies for Breast Cancer
title_sort why vitamin c could be an excellent complementary remedy to conventional therapies for breast cancer
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7664876/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33182353
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21218397
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