2 year w/ brain cancer secretly fed mar1juana - cured

Good for them both.

 

Medical mar1juana is great at helping ease pain, nausea, and stimulate appetite.

Not the first time this has happened, glad for them.

 

Misleading title. To me it looks like the chemo did the job. The cannabis helped the child make it thru the process.
Unless ther is a scientific direct link showing using only cannabis cured him then I can't take this article as fact. But I'm sure glad the kid is doing good weed or not, I couldn't imagine seeing one of my boys like that.

 

Probably a combo of the chemo + the fact the kid could eat some solids as a result of the cannibis. Great story.

 

I would have died from cancer, but I got high!

 

Most misleading thread title of the day award goes to...Sew.

 

To all the haters
http://health.usnews.com/health-new...ve-ingredient-in-mar1juana-kills-brain-cancer

WEDNESDAY, April 1 (HealthDay News) -- New research out of Spain suggests that THC -- the active ingredient in mar1juana -- appears to prompt the death of brain cancer cells.
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The finding is based on work with mice designed to carry human cancer tumors, as well as from an analysis of THC's impact on tumor cells extracted from two patients coping with a highly aggressive form of brain cancer.

Explaining that the introduction of THC into the brain triggers a cellular self-digestion process known as "autophagy," study co-author Guillermo Velasco said his team has isolated the specific pathway by which this process unfolds, and noted that it appears "to kill cancer cells, while it does not affect normal cells."

Velasco is with the department of biochemistry and molecular biology in the School of Biology at Complutense University in Madrid. The findings were published in the April issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation.

The Spanish researchers focused on two patients suffering from "recurrent glioblastoma multiforme," a fast-moving form of brain cancer. Both patients had been enrolled in a clinical trial designed to test THC's potential as a cancer therapy.

Using electron microscopes to analyze brain tissue taken both before and after a 26- to 30-day THC treatment regimen, the researchers found that THC eliminated cancer cells while it left healthy cells intact.

The team also was able, in what it described as a "novel" discovery, to track the signaling route by which this process was activated.

These findings were replicated in work with mice, which had been "engineered" to carry three different types of human cancer tumor grafts.

"These results may help to design new cancer therapies based on the use of medicines containing the active principle of mar1juana and/or in the activation of autophagy," Velasco said.

Outside experts suggested that more research is needed before advocating mar1juana as a medicinal intervention for brain cancer.

Dr. John S. Yu, co-director of the Comprehensive Brain Tumor Program in the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said the findings were "not surprising."

"There have been previous reports to this effect as well," he said. "So this is yet another indication that THC has an anti-cancer effect, which means it's certainly worth further study. But it does not suggest that one should jump at mar1juana for a potential cure for cancer, and one should not urge anyone to start smoking pot right away as a means of curing their own cancer."

But that's exactly what many brain cancer patients have been doing, said Dr. Paul Graham Fisher, the Beirne Family director of Neuro-Oncology at Stanford University.

"In fact, 40 percent of brain tumor patients in the U.S. are already using alternative treatments, ranging from herbals to vitamins to mar1juana," he said. "But that actually points out a cautionary tale here, which is that many brain cancer patients are already rolling a joint to treat themselves, but we're not really seeing brain tumors suddenly going away as a result, which we clearly would've noticed if it had that effect. So we need to be open-minded. But this suggests that the promise of THC might be a little over-hoped, and certainly requires further investigation before telling people to go out and roll a joint."

More information

For additional details on the risks and benefits of mar1juana use as it relates to cancer, visit the American Cancer Society.

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"but mar1juana causes lung cancer!"

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/26/MNGAKJ2S481.DTL&type=science

The largest study of its kind has unexpectedly concluded that smoking mar1juana, even regularly and heavily, does not lead to lung cancer.

The new findings "were against our expectations," said Dr. Donald Tashkin, a UCLA pulmonologist who has studied mar1juana for 30 years.

"We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between mar1juana use and lung cancer and that the association would be more positive with heavier use," he said. "What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/26/MNGAKJ2S481.DTL#ixzz1LOT4QJov

 

Break a bit, Lil bit, roll it up take a hit.

 

feeling lit, feeling light, 2 am summer night

 

Where can I get an immune system?

 

Damn, now this is informative! THC has alot of potential.

 

Harwin

 

Awesome story.

Legalize it already. The country is broke, Texas is broke and people die on the border and in prisons every day due to this silly prohibition.

(spoken as a non-imbiber)

 

It's so funny how dangerous drugs like alcohol and various prescription pills are legal but yet a plant like mar1juana with so many medical benefits is illegal. Things that make you go WTF...

 

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