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Preliminary results from Israeli study: Cannabis delays cancer development

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 04/14/2015 - 14:25

New research shows - with cautious optimism - that cannabis can kill or slow the development of cancer cells.

Medical cannabis is well known to cancer patients. A large number of Israelis receive it as part of their palliative care for dealing with the symptoms of the disease, as cannabis has been found to be effective in relieving chronic pain, nausea and loss of appetite.

Scientists from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have been researching completely different possibilities for the use of cannabis by cancer patients – as an active treatment against the development of the disease itself. A precedent-setting study examined how dozens of strains of cannabis affect the development and growth of hundreds of types of cancer cells.

This study is one of the first signs of a new approach to the use of cannabis in cancer treatment, which examines whether the plant can help in...

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