| Cancers pick up
GLUT of vitamin C
Certain cancers
have evolved a way to take up copious amounts of vitamin C, which could
compromise cancer therapy.
References:
Agus, D.B., J.C.
Vera, and D.W. Golde. 1999. Stromal cell oxidation: A mechanism by
which tumors obtain vitamin C. Cancer Research 59(Sept.
15):4555.
Further Readings:
Raloff, J. 1995.
Vitamin E: A cancer warning. Science News 147(April 29):271.
Wu, C. 1997. How
antioxidants defend cells. Science News 151(Feb. 15):111.
Sources:
David W. Golde
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
1275 York Avenue
New York, NY 10021
From Science
News, Vol. 156, No. 14, October 2, 1999, p. 221. Copyright © 1999,
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