A new study suggests that super-strength vitamin C doses could be a way to fight leukaemia. Scientists believe that Vitamin C which is found in high levels in oranges, peppers and kale, encourages blood cancer stem cells to die. Faulty stem cells in bone marrow often multiply, fueling the growth of fatal tumours, but vitamin C tells them to die, scientists claim.
But they warned that it is impossible to get the required amount through fruit and that such high quantities would be given intravenously.
By injecting patients with it, sufferers can get up to 500 times the amount than they would through eating fruit and vegetables.
This isn't the first time researchers have studied the cancer-fighting properties of vitamin C - but its effects on leukaemia were previously not understood.
