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ReviewClinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico2025

High-dose vitamin C as a metabolic treatment of cancer: a new dimension in the era of adjuvant and intensive therapy.

Xin Wang, Jia He, Minmin Sun, Shiwan Wang, Jinxiu Qu, Hanping Shi, Benqiang Rao

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Review in Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Xin Wang *Department of General Surgery, Beijing Shijitan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Jia He *Department of General Surgery, Beijing Shijitan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Minmin SunCAS Engineering Laboratory for Nanozyme, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Shiwan WangDepartment of General Surgery, Beijing Shijitan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Jinxiu QuDepartment of General Surgery, Beijing Shijitan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Hanping ShiDepartment of General Surgery, Beijing Shijitan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. shihp@ccmu.edu.cn.
Benqiang RaoDepartment of General Surgery, Beijing Shijitan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. raobenqiang@bjsjth.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2798-2468

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Ministry of Scientific and Technological Development, Higher Education and Information Society KM202010025007
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The anti-cancer mechanism of High-dose Vitamin C (HDVC) is mainly to participate in the Fenton reaction, hydroxylation reaction, and epigenetic modification, which leads to the energy crisis, metabolic collapse, and severe peroxidation stress that results in the proliferation inhibition or death of cancer cells. However, the mainstream view is that HDVC does not significantly improve cancer treatment outcomes. In clinical work and scientific research, we found that some drugs or therapies can significantly improve the anti-cancer effects of HDVC, such as PD-1 inhibitors that can increase the anti-cancer effects of cancerous HDVC by nearly three times. Here, the adjuvant and intensive therapy and synergistic mechanisms including HDVC combined application of chemoradiotherapies multi-vitamins, targeted drugs, immunotherapies, and oncolytic virus are discussed in detail. Adjuvant and intensive therapy of HDVC can significantly improve the therapeutic effect of HDVC in the metabolic treatment of cancer, but more clinical evidence is needed to support its clinical application.

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Ascorbic AcidNeoplasmsChemotherapy, AdjuvantHumansAscorbic AcidAdjuvant and intensive therapyCancerHigh-dose vitamin CMetabolic phenotypeSynergistic mechanisms

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