Since it's made of both a vegetable and animal fiber, the result is a lovely heathered yarn due to the way the fibers take the dyes. Chesapeake knits up at a worsted weight so it's ideal for knitting both adults and children's garments.
The 11 evaluable patients enrolled in the brain cancer safety trial received three infusions of vitamin C a week for 2 months followed by two infusions per week for 7 months while receiving standard care radiation and chemotherapy.
1 High-dose vitamin C has been studied as a treatment for patients with cancer since the 1970s (see Question 2). 2  Laboratory studies have shown that high doses of vitamin C may slow the growth and spread of prostate, pancreatic, liver, colon, and other types of cancer cells (see Question 5).ore than fifty years ago, a study suggested that cancer was a disease of changes in connective tissue caused by a lack of vitamin C. In the 1970's, it was proposed that high-dose ascorbic acid could help build resistance to disease or infection and possibly treat cancer.