Another negative experience
I knew somebody who had a secondary her2-,pr-,er- breast cancer. Taxotere was unsuccessful for her and our oncologist was going to put her on xeloda, but there was a short period between the two chemos. She decided to go for some IV vitamin C therapy during the short period in between. Of course she didn't tell her oncologist and I was so naive at that point that I figured that if somebody with an MD was administering something, it must be o.k. She deteriorated so rapidly during the vitamin C treatment that it had to be discontinued and she was sent back home to be hospitalized. She improved somewhat on the xeloda for a while. I can't help but wonder if the IV vitamin C therapy shortened her life. I was so concerned that she might have been harmed by the IV treatment that I wrote our oncologist after her death to let him know what had happened.
Perhaps scientists might one day find a way of getting vitamin C to kill cancer, but I am worried that this laboratory finding will be abused in ways that might actually harm cancer patients.
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