Vitamin C Deficiency (Scurvy) in a Patient with Cancer

• have anorexia and/or cachexia?

• undergone extensive chemotherapy?

• receiving parenteral or enteral nutrition without adequate vitamin C intake?

• have malabsorption?

• undergoing dialysis?

• have other reasons for malnutrition?

• a heavy cigarette smoker?

• swollen, bleeding gums?

• unexplained clinical bleeding?

Do you have access to measuring vitamin C levels within leukocytes?