Dr Joseph Cullen of the University of Iowa is leading his team in a series of breakthrough trials of vitamin C and cancer. The most recently published results demonstrate a doubling of survival in pancreatic cancer – one of the very hardest to treat – by simply adding vitamin C to standard treatments. In fact the results have been so astonishing that Dr Cullen’s team have received a $10m government grant to push their research forward in the next few years. Hopefully this marks the beginning of the end of accusations of quackery being thrown at practitioners treating people vitamin C, but how long will it be before UK hospitals consider using such a cheap, safe and effective medicine?