Is chemo and vitamin C safe?

You know, I've heard vitamin C is not good if I'm also giving chemo at the same time. I heard that they'll cancel each other out or something. That's a common misconception about vitamin C. So one of the things that I did early on, because we got these questions every single day, is started to collect and collate information about vitamin C research from publications, peer-reviewed research about vitamin C and different chemotherapy agents. And vitamin C is not studied in every type of chemotherapy because there's a lot, but it's studied in most of the major categories of chemotherapy, and the surprise to our oncology colleagues was always, oh, the data is actually positive, it's not negative. And so this idea we have, which looks good on paper, that vitamin C is going to cancel out the chemo, turns out not to be true. It's actually very, very supportive and in some cases synergistic with, with your chemotherapy. So we really had, after a while, no major problem with the collaborating oncology teams referring to us. And anecdotally, what they would say is, you know, after the first year or 2, it appears that my patients who see both of us, so they're seeing the integrative team and getting, you know, all the integrative stuff and the IV vitamin C, and then they're seeing us and getting chemo or whatever, it appears that those people have better quality of life and maybe better outcomes. And indeed, what we showed over time, we had increased length of life in a number of very difficult-to-treat cancers. And then that led to some follow-up research that's going on currently. And they're being a little more specific about it, etc. So, the idea that vitamin C and chemo don't go well together is just sort of an old notion that's not borne out in the science.