Cancer and Vitamin C: A Discussion of the Nature, Causes, Prevention, and Treatment of Cancer with Special Reference to the Value of Vitamin C

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Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, 1979 - Health & Fitness - 238 pages
"This volume could be titled 'Cancer- A Book for Intelligent Laymen,' for it explains in plain language the nature and known causes of cancer, covering nearly all its different forms and their natural progression. Cancer and Vitamin C also weighs the value and limitations of various modes of treatment: surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, hormones, immunotherapy, and a number of unorthodox therapies, including Laetrile. Cameron and Pauling emphasize the value of supplemental vitamin C as a supportive measure in all cancer treatment, providing helpful details on dosage and methods of administration. The value of vitamin C as an adjunct to therapy is corroborated by detailed accounts of more than fifty cancer patients who have derived varying degrees of benefit from vitamin C. The book concludes with an important chapter on the prevention of cancer, offering a few practical measures that could immediately and markedly reduce the incidence of this disease. The book has a number of appendices giving details about cancer mortality in the United States, a list of cancer chemotherapeutic drugs and their mode of action, a discussion of surgical terms, and a glossary of practical information about vitamin C and its use.

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The Nature of Cancer
3
The Treatment of Cancer
47
The Treatment of Cancer by Radiotherapy
58
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Linus Pauling was born on February 28, 1901 in Portland, Oregon. He never received a high school diploma because he dropped out of Washington High School in Portland as a form of protest against taking courses he regarded as pointless. Despite not having a high school diploma, he received a B. S. in chemical engineering from Oregon Agricultural College in 1922 and a Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in 1925. He did research and taught at the California Institute of Technology from 1922 to 1963, was a research professor at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in California from 1963 to 1967, taught at the University of California, San Diego until 1969, and then taught at Stanford University, where he was forced to retire after his 70th birthday. After leaving Stanford, he set up the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine. He received the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1954, as a result of his research into the nature of the chemical bond, the force that gives atoms the cohesiveness to form the molecules that in turn become the basis of all physical matter. Around 1960, he began a campaign to obtain the signatures of scientists opposed to nuclear testing. A total of 11,021 scientists in 49 countries signed the petitions. He received the Nobel Prize for peace in 1962 for his work since 1946 "not only against the testing of nuclear weapons, not only against the spread of these armaments, not only against their very use, but against all warfare as a means of solving international conflicts." He wrote several books during his lifetime including The Nature of the Chemical Bond, His No More War, and Vitamin C and the Common Cold. He died from cancer on August 19, 1994 at the age of 93.

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