High-dose intravenous vitamin C, a promising multi-targeting agent in the treatment of cancer

F Böttger, A Vallés-Martí, L Cahn… - Journal of experimental & …, 2021 - Springer
Mounting evidence indicates that vitamin C has the potential to be a potent anti-cancer
agent when administered intravenously and in high doses (high-dose IVC). Early phase …

Mechanisms and prevention of UV‐induced melanoma

A Sample, YY He - Photodermatology, photoimmunology & …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer and its incidence is rising, creating a costly
and significant clinical problem. Exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation, namely UVA (315 …

High-dose vitamin C enhances cancer immunotherapy

A Magrì, G Germano, A Lorenzato, S Lamba… - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
Vitamin C (VitC) is known to directly impair cancer cell growth in preclinical models, but
there is little clinical evidence on its antitumoral efficacy. In addition, whether and how VitC …

Ascorbic acid in cancer treatment: let the phoenix fly

N Shenoy, E Creagan, T Witzig, M Levine - Cancer cell, 2018 - cell.com
Vitamin C (ascorbic acid, ascorbate), despite controversy, has re-emerged as a promising
anti-cancer agent. Recent knowledge of intravenous ascorbate pharmacokinetics and …

Intravenous vitamin C for cancer therapy–identifying the current gaps in our knowledge

AC Carr, J Cook - Frontiers in physiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The use of intravenous vitamin C (IVC) for cancer therapy has long been an area of intense
controversy. Despite this, high dose IVC has been administered for decades by …

Vitamin C, from supplement to treatment: a re-emerging adjunct for cancer immunotherapy?

L Kouakanou, C Peters, CE Brown, D Kabelitz… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Vitamin C (VitC), in addition to its role as a general antioxidant, has long been considered to
possess direct anti-cancer activity at high doses. VitC acts through oxidant and epigenetic …

Ascorbic acid chemosensitizes colorectal cancer cells and synergistically inhibits tumor growth

AS Pires, CR Marques, JC Encarnação… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is continuously classified as one of the most incidental and mortal
types of cancer worldwide. The positive outcomes of the conventional chemotherapy are …

Tropinone-derived alkaloids as potent anticancer agents: Synthesis, tyrosinase inhibition, mechanism of action, DFT calculation, and molecular docking studies

K Piechowska, M Mizerska-Kowalska… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
A new series of hybrid compounds with tropinone and thiazole rings in the structure was
designed and synthesized as potential anticancer agents. They were tested against human …

The Xc inhibitor sulfasalazine improves the anti-cancer effect of pharmacological vitamin C in prostate cancer cells via a glutathione-dependent mechanism

Z Zheng, G Luo, X Shi, Y Long, W Shen, Z Li, X Zhang - Cellular Oncology, 2020 - Springer
Purpose Traditional treatment regimens for advanced prostate cancer, especially castration-
resistant prostate cancer, result in low survival times with severe side effects. Therefore, new …

RIG-I resists hypoxia-induced immunosuppression and dedifferentiation

C Engel, G Brügmann, S Lambing… - Cancer Immunology …, 2017 - AACR
A hypoxic tumor microenvironment is linked to poor prognosis. It promotes tumor cell
dedifferentiation and metastasis and desensitizes tumor cells to type-I IFN, chemotherapy …