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This seems to contradict another recent study [1] that found that Vitamin C promoted cancer (melanoma) growth. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-

• dualogy 11y ago
  That's the nasty thing about cancerous cells, they can adapt to "feed" (via blood) on a wide range of macro- (glucose, protein, fatty acids, even ketones for some rare types) and micro-nutrients (vitamins, "antioxidants") just like "healthy" cells. What baffles me is that even autophagy either doesn't seem to always work (easy to induce by water-fasting for a couple of weeks) --else every sufferer would do so until in remission-- or that we still don't seem to have pharmaceutical ways of jumpstarting/forcing "99% effective" autophagy..
• swsieber 11y ago
  It would actually contradict it if this article mentioned melanoma like the post you found. I highly suspect we'll find individual ways of treating most individual cancer types before finding one that targets them all.