Repurposing Vitamin C for Cancer Treatment: Focus on Targeting the Tumor Microenvironment.

ABSTRACT: Based on the enhanced knowledge on the tumor microenvironment (TME), a more comprehensive treatment landscape for targeting the TME has emerged. This microenvironment provides multiple therapeutic targets due to its diverse characteristics, leading to numerous TME-targeted strategies. With multifaced activities targeting tumors and the TME, vitamin C is renown as a promising candidate for combination therapy. In this review, we present new advances in how vitamin C reshapes the TME in the immune, hypoxic, metabolic, acidic, neurological, mechanical, and microbial dimensions. These findings will open new possibilities for multiple therapeutic avenues in the fight against cancer. We also review the available preclinical and clinical evidence of vitamin C combined with established therapies,

SUBMITTER: Li WN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9179307 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature