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The dangers of vitamin C
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Correspondence: Jonathan B Weitzman jonathanweitzman@hotmail.com
Genome Biology 2001, 2:spotlight-20010618-01 doi:10.1186/gb-spotlight-20010618-01
Published: 18 June 2001Experiments in vitro show that vitamin C induces the formation of genotoxins, explaining why it has proved ineffective as a cancer therapeutic agent.