PM I have stated here before the reasons behind my low expectations of
ultra-high dose IV Vitamin C.  Firstly it has been widely used over the last
year or so since this new information appeared about the poor absorption of
oral Vitamin C and the very high concentrations needed to kill cancer cells
in tissue culture,  without any impressive anecdotal material appearing on
web sites or on newsgroups.

Secondly Riordan's own results are not very impressive.   In June 2004 he
published seven "best cases" accumulated over a period of at least 14 years
of using IV Vitamin C.   Several of these had been published previously, so
that this is presumably the sum total of his impressive cases out of 14
years oif use.

They are a better quality of case than those usually supplied within
alternative medicine, but some still leave doubt.   Two were remissions of
pulmonary secondaries from kidney cancer, whixh is one of the cancers that
does have a high rate of sponataneous remission especially after treatment
of the primary cancer, as appears to appply to one of the cases.   One case
of colon cancer received chemotherapy in addition to vitamin C.  One case of
pancreatic cancer died but was thought to have lived longer than usual.  One
was a non-Hodgkins lymphoma treated primarily by radiotherapy where the
Vitamin C may have affected cervical lymph nodes.   Another case of NHL
received chemotherapy  and it is not clear from the story that this was not
fully responsible for the remission.  The other was a patient with
metastatic breast cancer that was thought to have had resolution of "several
skull metastases".  She died within six months of pathological fracture,
presumably due to continued secondary cancer.

This is not a lot to show for 14 years of use.   It is only because the
cases are well-documented and published that they are worth taking some
notice of, while reserving final judgement until the treatment is tested out
under more controlled conditions.

Patients are not "sent home to die", and it is not yet known that these
results are different to those possible in "standard oncology".   Cancer is
a very predictable disease, but only at about the 95-99% level over all,
with some cancers being quite unpredictable.

Brave words, and something should be very easily demonstrated.   However
most  patients and practitioners using alternatives use combinations of
treatments like this, but they still find it difficult to produce instances
of cancer response.

PM