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Controlled study reveals no benefit of vitamin C in treating advanced cancer, suggesting reevaluation of its use.
An article in your Sept. 30 Week in Review section, “Vitamin C Fails as a Cancer Cure” (with reference to me in the first sentence), said that a controlled study of 150 Mayo Clinic patients with advanced cancer, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, had shown no evidence that large doses of vitamin C help.
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