Researchers from the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute believe that a compound found in cannabis, CBD, may prevent the spread of breast cancer to other parts of the body.
"Right now we have a limited range of options in treating aggressive forms of cancer," Sean D. McAllister, a cancer researcher at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute in San Francisco said in a statement. "Those treatments, such as chemotherapy, can be effective but they can also be extremely toxic and difficult for patients. This compound offers the hope of a non-toxic therapy that could achieve the same results without any of the painful side effects."
Researchers are not advocating the smoking of marijuana to prevent the spread of the cancer as the quantity of CBD requires for such a result is impossible to accomplish in this manner. CBD appears to stop the activity of a gene called ld-1, which is believed to cause metastasis the spread of the cancer cells from the original site of the tumor.
Researchers from the study believe that use of the compound can be effective and without the toxicity of chemotherapy.
[Source: Digital Journal]
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