A doctor outlines five safety checks before giving high-dose vitamin C with chemotherapy: verify the provider's credentials and training, confirm screening labs are done, identify the specific chemo drugs, check the dosing schedule, and space out treatments to protect kidney function.
Is it safe with chemotherapy? You have to go through these different layers. Number 1, provider, you know, licensing, training. Are they doing all the things right within the law, etc.? Number 2, have you had the screening labs? Number 3, what are the chemotherapy agents? Number 4, what's their schedule? And then the next thing is, if the chemo is slowing down your kidney function for 24 hours while it's working through the body, let's say, And the vitamin C is slowing down your kidney function for, you know, 10 to 12 hours while it's working through, maybe even though they're fine together, we still separate them a little bit.
