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Vitamin C Increases Throat Cancer Survival

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 9:17 am
by ofonorow
The headline in the following report should be that Vitamin C was the only nutritional substance found to be increase throat cancer survival:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051209/hl_ ... _cancer_dc

Dr. Rajesh P. Dikshit wrote:But the most important result, Dikshit remarked, was the protective effect of some diet components. "We found that a high intake of vitamin C significantly improved the patients' survival."

The investigators also found a strong protective effect of a diet rich in vegetables, but not of the individual components found in those vegetables. Only vitamin C was protective on its own.