Study Offers New Vitamin C Findings

Research done at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic suggests that high dosages of vitamin C do not, as previously suspected, aid advanced cancer patients, the New England Journal of Medicine reported this week.

The findings of the Mayo study conflict with the conclusions of previous research at the Vale of Leven Hospital in Loch Lomondside, Scotland. That study showed that the vitamin helped in at least ten percent of the patients studied, as well as undefined "subjective benefit" in most patients.

Robert Mayer, assistant professor at the Medical School, praised the Mayo clinic study, saying that discrepancies in the Scottish study made its results invalid and potentially dangerous.