Cost: Varies. You can make your own cheaply, or it is about $30 for a month supply of pre-made liposomal Vitamin C. I find that the pre-made kind tends to be more effective for me.
Mechanism: Temporarily produces hydrogen peroxide within cancer cells which destroys them. It ends up being a pro-oxidant at high levels.
Liposomal Vitamin C seems to substitute for Vitamin C IVs. It seems to have very powerful effects as an intracellular antioxidant.
Dr. Thomas Levy has done extensive research on Vitamin C for cancer, especially liposomal Vitamin C.
"This includes details of studies that show that IV vitamin C can effectively fight cancer because it can deliver high enough vitamin C blood levels, where oral tablets or capsules cannot create high enough blood levels.
Reports say that six grams of oral liposomally-carried vitamin C is equal in delivering vitamin C inside cells, where it does its work, to 50 grams of intravenous vitamin C."
Liposomal Vitamin C can have effects that oral (regular) Vitamin C cannot, because it can reach higher concentrations within cells.
"Dr. Mark Levine, a US National Institutes of Health researcher, said that the reason vitamin C hadn’t been shown to cure cancer was because researchers had focused on using oral vitamin C, which only gives a few percent delivery into our cells.
The cancer cell-killing effect of vitamin C is realized by the transient production of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) within connective tissues (not in blood), which then destroys tumor cells, and subsequently turns to harmless water (H2O), ensuring non-toxic therapy.
According to researchers Hickey and Roberts, repeated doses, and use of a special liposomal form of vitamin C that is absorbed in the gut and then into the liver before it is released into the blood stream, are key to making oral vitamin C therapy effective. Another important factor is to limit the consumption of carbohydrates (refined sugar) which impairs oral absorption of this vitamin.
Dr. John Ely, emeritus professor at the University of Washington, has also shown that sugar depletes vitamin C from white blood cells and makes them sluggish. White blood cells are the very cells that attack tumor cells and destroy them.
The liposomal form of vitamin C employed in this study consists of 1-gram (1000 milligram) dose sachets of vitamin C powder encapsulated in lecithin (phosphatidylcholine), as supplied by Livon Laboratories of Henderson, Nevada, USA."
You can also get an ultrasonic jewelry cleaner online for about $20-$25 and make your own using liquid lecithin (sunflower lecithin is less allergenic than soy lecithin, and people with NF should probably avoid most soy) and pure Vitamin C powder. There are instructions on how to do this online.