Linus Pauling vindicated!!??
Exactly! Never quibble with a two times Nobel laureate.
(Actually, a number of years ago the mother of a friend of mine had been mismanaged by her doctors and they had missed a large tumour. She was beyond rescue, but my friend asked me if I knew anything that might help. That caused me to have a look at Pauling’s old papers, and as a matter of fact they are quite noteworthy. Glad to see that someone has revisited his research.)
Not quite. The effect on cancer cells is due to iron in cancer cells reacting with injected Vitamin C to generate oxidation that makes those cells especially vulnerable to radiation therapy. Critics of Pauling and his work — including his former research director — long ago pointed out that high oral doses of Vitamin C also generate excessive oxidation in normal cells, a process that damages those cells and is known to be a cause of cancer.