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Is Medical Marijuana Effective for Cancer Patients?
Medical Marijuana is well-known for its proven antiemetic properties. Cancer patients frequently develop a feeling of vomiting, nausea and may experience some other symptoms, including debilitating pains, nerve pains, and several others.
For cancer patients who are in dire need of nutrition, vomiting can severely cause malnutrition. And that is where medical Marijuana comes into the picture. Before the condition gets severe, medical Marijuana’s scientifically proven benefits can help cancer patients manage the symptoms and other side effects of cancer therapies.
Several studies have discovered that smoked medical Marijuana can help treat vomiting and nausea due to cancer chemotherapy. Further, a few studies have found that inhaled medical Marijuana, either vaporized or smoked, can help treat the neuropathic pain that is caused due to damaged nerves.
Medical marijuana consumption can help cancer patients to deal with several symptoms, including vomiting, nausea, pain, reducing inflammation and nerve pain. Chemotherapy is an intense treatment that results in all these symptoms. Medical Marijuana can help ease the aches, diminish nausea, inflammation, and vomiting, and also helps with a specific type of nerve pain.
Recently the studies have reported that cannabinoids like CBD and THC constituents can slow the growth in certain types of cancer cells. Several animal studies have also suggested that specific cannabinoids can slow growth and diminish the spread of several forms of cancer.
However, there have been several early clinical trials of cannabinoids treating cancer in humans. So far the studies have shown that the consumption of cannabinoids can be safe in treating cancer, but there’s no evidence that they can cure or control the disease.
Therefore, relying entirely on medical Marijuana as a treatment while delaying or avoiding conventional medicines for cancer may have several serious health consequences. So, it is highly essential to choose the treatment with the doctor’s advice only.
Source: My MMJ Doctor
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