Australia: Orange Joins First Cannabis Drug Trial To Combat Cancer Treatment Side Effects
Cancer patients will have the chance to join a world-first medical marijuana trial at Orange Health Service.
Currently, half of cancer patients treated with chemotherapy suffer significant nausea and more than a third experience vomiting.
Marijuana, or cannabis will be compared to anti-nausea medications.
Oncologist Rob Zielinski said the trial involved a new cannabis compound and would be administered through a tablet.
To be eligible, patients have to suffer nausea from chemotherapy.
“The actual (chemotherapy) drugs we choose to use have varying degrees, or severity of nausea,” Dr Zielinski said.
“Certain drugs cause nausea 100 per cent of the time.”
He said with half of patients suffering from nausea, there’s a “reasonable proportion of people that we have to do a lot better for”.
“We have got some great drugs but this is a wonderful trial to prove whether a cannabis-based medication is going to help these patients,” Dr Zielinski...
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