Vitamin C may treat cancer after all

Despite Nobel laureate Linus Pauling’s advocacy of vitamin C as a way for people to battle cancer, research has rarely found that doses of the nutrient affect the course of the disease. However, a new investigation shows that vitamin C could be an effective cancer fighter after all, but only when taken intravenously.

Mark Levine of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in Bethesda, Md.,