In 1998, it was discovered that THC kills glioma (brain tumor) cells in petri dishes. Although late stages of glioma, such as gliombastoma multiforme is still currently incurable, current research shows so far, our best solution is temozolomide (chemo) in combination with high-CBD: low-THC treatment.
In 2006, Dr. Guzman of Complutense University in Madrid coducted a pilot clinical trial, where THC was surgically inserted directly into the brains of terminal cancer patients. Although it could not cure the cancer, the study demonstrated disease control and that cannabis is safe for human use!
In 2011, patients at BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada documented that cannabis inhalation shrunk their pilocytic astrocytomas (brain tumors). Documented by MRI while using no treatment except cannabis.
A 2018 study in the Anticancer Research Journal documented that synthetic cannabidiol (CBD) alone shrunk a 5-year-old's anaplastic ependymoma (terminal brian tumor) by 60% in less than a year! No other treatments worked, and he has remained in stable condition since then.
"The most impressive case was a five-year-old male patient with an anaplastic ependymoma, a very rare brain tumour. The patient had had all standard treatments, surgery on two occasions followed by chemotherapy and conformal photon radiotherapy. No further treatment options were available to him when treatment on CBD started in February 2016. A scan carried out in December 2016 showed that tumour volume had decreased by ~60%. Further scans, carried out since December 2016, continued to show stable disease. CBD was the only treatment (Figure 1A-D)."
Other than cases of ependymoma, "patients who clearly improved using pharmaceutical-grade synthetic CBD had prostate cancer, breast cancer, oesophageal cancer and a lymphoma". Read the full study below.
Kenyon J, Liu W, Dalgleish A (2018). "Report of Objective Clinical Responses of Cancer Patients to Pharmaceutical-grade Synthetic Cannabidiol." Anticancer Research. Vol 38(10), pp. 5831-5835. doi: 10.21873/anticanres.12924. http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/38/10/5831.long
Here's a table from the CBD study:
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These kind of articles offer the least return on investment for the content creator. People don't get excited about this stuff the way they should. Most seem distracted by "steem monsters" or their own posts. Thanks for pumping out quality knowledge-filled posts about cannabis!
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True. I upvoted it at least! @MediKatie's posts are great and always have links to excellent sources of info.
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