Intravenous Vitamin C for the treatment of depression in cancer patients
Vancouver/NLM style research paper/manuscript.
The paper itself is on the intravenous application of vitamin C in the treatment of depression in cancer patients. Many patients seek alternative healthcare measures to augment their cancer care and will use intravenous vitamin C therapy (IVC).
Identify all studies that use IVC, filter out any that don’t measure changes in depression, and summarize the relevant articles in a literature review that supports the need for future research into IVC for depression.
The current literature is primarily around IVC for treating cancer; we noticed mood was improved in many patients undergoing this therapy so we sought to separate the studies that explicitly look at changes in mood/depression from the wealth of research existing on changes in life expectancy/response to chemo/radiation.
