Cannabinoids: novel breast cancer therapy?

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By David Liu PHD

Thursday July 19, 2012 (foodconsumer.org) -- Researchers in Spain published a review early this month in the journal Cancer Treatment Review suggesting that cannabinoids may be used as an therapeutic agent to treat most type of breast cancer.

M.M. Caffarel of Complutense University-CIBERNED-IRYCIS in Madrid, Spain and colleagues say that experimental evidence has emerged in the past decade to suggest that cannabinoids, active components of Cannabis sativa and their derivatives, possess anticancer activity against a range of malignancies including breast cancer.

Breast cancer is expected to be diagnosed in nearly 14 percent of women in their lifetime in the United States. In the U.S. alone, 210,000 women are diagnosed each year with this disease which kills about 50,000 in the country annually.

The authors said cannabinoids exert anti-proliferative, pro-apoptotic, anti-migratory and anti-invasive effects against a wide spectrum of cultured cancer cells.

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http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Non-food/Drug/cannabinoids_breast_cancer_0719120959.html

 

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Breast cancer is expected to be diagnosed in nearly 14 percent of women in their lifetime in the United States.

So how many of those use cannabis regularly, compared to the general population?

 

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The authors said cannabinoids exert anti-proliferative, pro-apoptotic, anti-migratory and anti-invasive effects against a wide spectrum of cultured cancer cells.

But everyone knows marijuana causes cancer!

 

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it's stories like this that make smokers visualize tugs of war in their lungs between carcinogens and anticancer agents. Epic conflagrations. The stuff of Tolstoy.