Palliative Care and Oncology - Cannabis as Supportive Treatment
- Medical cannabis finds many uses as a supportive and medicinal substance in various areas
- One of the newly researched spheres of potential cannabis use is palliative care
Medical cannabis is currently under the scrutiny of scientists as a potentially safe therapeutic option focused on supporting patients who can help with symptoms associated with various malignant diseases. The most frequently mentioned symptoms that medical cannabis can help with in oncological care are:
- sleep problems
- feelings of anxiety and depression
Researchers are particularly pleased that cannabis is often able to help with all these symptoms simultaneously, thus avoiding the application of multiple pharmaceuticals at once.
The results of an official study were published in the leading European scientific journal "European Journal of Internal Medicine". The research specifically analyzed 2,960 patients from Israel suffering from various types of cancer. The total observation lasted 6 months, but only 1,742 of these patients survived until the end of the study. "The therapy was successful in 60% of those who survived," adds one of the study's leaders, Dr. Victor Novak, who works at the official Cannabis Research Clinic at Soroka University in Israel.
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