Volume 26, No 3, Mar 2016

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 26 Issue 3, March 2016: 269-270

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Anti-cancer effects of vitamin C revisited

Jiska van der Reest¹ and Eyal Gottlieb¹

¹Cancer Metabolism Research Unit, Cancer Research UK, Beatson Institute, Glasgow, UK Correspondence: Eyal Gottlieb,(e.gottlieb@beatson.gla.ac.uk)

Vitamin C was first suggested to have cancer-fighting properties in the 1930s and has been the subject of controversy ever since. Despite repeated reports of selective cancer cell toxicity induced by high-dose vitamin C treatment in vitro and in mouse models, the mechanism of action has remained elusive.

10.1038/cr.2016.7

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