Antioxidants may be detrimental to cancer patients by interfering with reactive oxygen species that target cancer cells. — Whalespan
Antioxidants may be detrimental to cancer patients by interfering with reactive oxygen species that target cancer cells.
⚠ High risk
We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“the evidence is becoming pretty clear that the last thing you want to do in a cancer patient is give them an antioxidant as sort of anti sort of dogmatic as that would seem because the Ross actually play an important role in selectively targeting a cancer felt itself versus a non cancer cell”