The Cancers
Orthomolecular treatment, vitamin C, and cancer are intimately related historically. After Dr Linus Pauling became interested in our work using vitamins to treat schizophrenic patients, he suggested in a widely-read and controversial book that it would be therapeutic against the common cold. Later he made the same prediction for the treatment of cancer based upon research in Scotland by Dr Ewan Cameron, with whom Pauling worked. This created even more controversy. Pauling maintained that the addition of orthomolecular principles to the standard treatment for cancer would improve the treatment results, but the huge cancer-medical complex reacted with marked hostility and total rejection. I became involved after I reported that patients with cancer who were referred to me because of their own and my interest in the therapeutic properties of vitamin C had a better prognosis. This culminated in several books dealing with the oral use of this vitamin, listed below. In these books I describe the use of multiple vitamins following the principle I had been following for years that the patients were much better if one used a number of antioxidants simultaneously.
In spite of many millions in research money, progress in cancer treatment has been very slow. Chemotherapy has very slight therapeutic effect, and according to some is only used because they have nothing else. Cancer treatment is like going to a shoemaker - it is unlikely he will sell you a suit. I am convinced that cancer patients are better both physically and emotionally when they take these nutrients, and that they live longer; some make a complete recovery. Unfortunately this field is ignored because of the medical establishment’s hostility toward Pauling and vitamins, and many years of research have been wasted searching for the patentable ‘magic bullet’. One cannot claim that vitamins cure cancer the same way that some antibiotics cure some infections, but the onus is now on critics to seriously examine these orthomolecular ideas.
Dr. Hugh Riordan studied the use of large doses of intravenous vitamin C for treating cancer. His results were so impressive that University of Kansas recently established The Hugh Riordan Chair of Orthomolecular Medicine, and large scale studies are underway there and at McGill University medical school. High concentration of vitamin C in the blood is toxic to cancer cells but not to normal cells. It is an ideal chemotherapeutic substance.
- Hoffer A: Vitamin C and Cancer. Quarry Press, Kingston, ON, 2000.
- Hoffer A: Healing Cancer. CCNM Press, Toronto, ON, 2004.
- Hoffer A: User's Guide to Natural Therapies For Cancer Prevention and Control. Basic Health Publications Basic Health Publications, 28812 Top of the World Drive, Laguna Beach, CA.92651, Telephone 1 800 575 8890 2004.
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