Vitamin C and Improved Quality of Life

• Multidisciplinary Integrative Medicine Approach for Cancer Patients: A Multicenter Retrospective Study.

  • 2025-03-13
  • Clinical Trial · n = 54
  • Nutrients 17(6)
  • • Massimiliano Berretta
    • Vincenzo Quagliariello
    • Alessandro Ottaiano
    • Mariachiara Santorsola
    • Raffaele Di Francia
    • Patrizia Carroccio
    • Nicola Maurea
    • Oreste Claudio Buonomo
    • Gaetano Facchini
    • Giordana Di Mauro
    • Monica Montopoli
    • Enrica Toscano
    • Claudia Gelsomino
    • Antonio Picone
    • Tindara Franchina
    • Paola Muscolino
    • Alessia Bignucolo
    • Gianluca Vanni
    • Giuliana Ciappina
    • Liliana Montella

  • PubMed: 40290037
  • DOI: 10.3390/nu17061012

  2 Insights on

  • Improved Quality of Life

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal
  • Clinical

  The main benefit of the CIM approach was improved fatigue and QoL, and this was mainly achieved by the concomitant use of polytherapy-based complementary medicine (PCM) and U-CARE.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

• Impact of Sodium Ascorbate High Dose on Quality of Life and Pain in Patients Diagnosed With and Treated for Terminal Cancer (Real-World Data Study).

  • 2026-01
  • Observational · n = 92
  • Integrative cancer therapies 25
  • • Hugo Mario Galindo Salom
    • Carlos Alberto Carrillo Bravo
    • Helber Armando Prieto Lozano
    • Paulo Andrés López Posada

  • PubMed: 41606996
  • DOI: 10.1177/15347354251414640

  2 Insights on

  • Improved Quality of Life

  • Moderate evidence
  • Clinical

  The administration of sodium ascorbate at dose of 100 to 300 and 300 to 600 mg/kg/day showed statistically significant improvements in quality of life (P = .000).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  100 to 300 and 300 to 600 mg/kg/day