Cannabis chemicals may provide a new way of treating deadly brain cancer, new research suggests.

Scientists have shown that cannabinoids - the active ingredients responsible for the drug's "high" - hold back the growth of blood vessels which feed the tumour.


Cutting off tumours' blood supply is one of the latest anti-cancer strategies being explored by scientists.

In the Spanish study cannabinoids significantly reduced the growth of tumours in laboratory mice.

About 4,400 new cases of brain tumour are diagnosed in the UK each year.

Only about 6% of people diagnosed with these high grade cancers live for more than three years.

The disease is normally treated with surgery, followed by radiotherapy alone or in combination with chemotherapy.

But the main tumour often grows back again to kill the patient.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...192385,00.html

Sweet.

Bollocks......THC is a carcenogen

It may stop one type but could well cause 3 more!

Neon

doesn't everything stop and cause cancer at the same time? i talked to my mom tonight and she informed me that she was going to start popping some pill from hawaii that a) stopped cancer and b) lowered blood pressure. i told her she was full of shit.

I agree with the hussy. Too many assumptions are made without the proper amount of evidence being presented. For instance the whole theory about being on your cell phone may increase your potential for cancer. Now the studies have been showing the opposite of what they once thought was true. I think everything is like that. I guess its just up to the individual to decide if they'd wish to subject themselves under what may be a fallacy.