The following is an excerpt from the book How to Prevent and Treat Cancer with Natural Medicine, which was endorsed by the cancer treatment centers in America. The presentation is based on research published in the Alternative Medical Review in 1998, as well as on Pauling’s and Cameron’s own paper, “Supplemental Ascorbate in the Supportive Treatment of Cancer: Prolongation of Survival Times in Terminal Human Cancer”, published in 1976 in the Proceedings of National Academy of Science. The Japanese findings were published in 1982 by A. Murata, F. Morishige, and H. Yamaguchi.
“Perhaps the most controversial use of vitamin C supplementation is in the treatment of cancer. In 1976, Linus Pauling, a two-time Nobel Prize winner (1954 Chemistery; 1962 Peace) brought vitamin C into the limelight by reporting the results of a groundbreaking study. Pauling and his colleague Ewan Cameron gave 100 terminally ill cancer patients 10 g of vitamin C per day. Sixteen of these patients survived more than one year. Such results may not seem significant – until you realize that in the control group (1,000 terminally ill patients who did NOT receive vitamin C), only three survived at least a year. Thus the survival rate with vitamin C was 16% among treated patients, compared with just 0.3% of those who did not get treatment. Another way of stating the results is that survival rate was 53 times higher among the vitamin C group.
Cameron conducted another study and reported similarly impressive results… Japanese researchers also published similar results from two uncontrolled trials conducted at two different hospitals in Japan during the 1970s…
In our opinion, while vitamin C alone may not be strong enough intervention in the treatment of most active cancers, we believe that vitamin C is appropriate for cancer patients (who typically have very low vitamin C levels anyway), because it appears to enhance their immune function, improve quality of life, and extend survival time…”