Vitamin C and Cancer
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Vitamin C and Cancer: Medicine or Politics? is a book by Evelleen Richards, published in 1991 by Macmillan.[1][2] It examines the scientific, institutional and social debates surrounding the use of vitamin C as a cancer treatment, steming from the claims made by Linus Pauling and his collaborators.[3][4][5]
The book reconstructs the key episodes of the public debate over vitamin C and cancer, tracing the historical developments from the initial clinical studies that supported vitamin C as anticancer therapy, to the later evdience produce by the Mayo Clinic studies that challenged the earlier results.[4][5]
Richards suggests that the evaluation of medical treatments does not rest solely on objective experimental clinical evidence, but it also shaped by broader social, economic and political pressures.[5]