Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gatech.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!amd!gatech!carter From: carter@gatech.UUCP (Carter Bullard) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Re: Unconventional Cancer Therapy F Message-ID: <12393@gatech.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 14:50:12 EST Article-I.D.: gatech.12393 Posted: Thu Mar 7 14:50:12 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Mar-85 04:37:26 EST References: <11971@gatech.UUCP> <8000018@hp-sdd.UUCP> Organization: School of ICS, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Lines: 40 > Vitamin C is ineffective as a treatment for cancer. So say > doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who found > that victims of bowel cancer given large doses of vitamin C had > no better survival rate than victims treated with a placebo. > The report contradicts the assertions of two-time Nobel Prize > winner Linus Pauling, a longstanding advocate of the vitamin's > powers to treat some diseases. > > Mmmrmmph! Don't you love the way they make it sound so final, so > resolved, so unambiguous? I think you (LPI) would be doing their > readers a favor to write a letter to the editor, pointing out some > of the experiments you've quoted here. > > Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 487-4100 x4664 > net: {allegra|ihnp4|decvax|ucbvax}!hplabs!hp-sdd!andrea > > ...searchlights casting for faults in the clouds of delusion I find this attitude very upsetting. Now look, if you just wanted to know if Vitamin C was the cure all for bowel cancer then you now know the answer. It is obviously not. The study unequivocably showed that given megadoses of Vitamin C, a patient with bowel cancer will die just as fast as a person with bowel cancer not given Vitamin C therapy. Not even 5% showed any benefit from the therapy at all. Now, the only way that you could ignore such a thing is to think that the technician that gave the patients the tablets messed up and gave them Digel instead. I get riled when a study shows that 60-70% of the patients were successfully treated and people squabble over the validity of the study. I don't get excited about somebody dismissing Vitamin C as a possible conjunctive treatment for rectocolonic carcinomas when not even one person shows benefit from its use. Granted, its a very nice romantic idea to think that vitamins will deliver us to eternity on earth,............ but I don't think so. -- Carter Bullard ICS, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332 CSNet:Carter @ Gatech ARPA:Carter.Gatech @ CSNet-relay.arpa uucp:...!{akgua,allegra,amd,ihnp4,hplabs,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!carter