Researchers at California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute (CPMCRI, a Sutter Health affiliate) have found that a compound in cannabis previously shown to decrease metastatic breast cancer now shows promise in stopping aggressive brain cancer as well. The findings are particularly important given the safety of the cannabis compound and the fact that patients with advanced brain cancer have few options for treatment. “These findings offer some hope in an area where there’s been very little, and give even greater potential to our earlier research,” said Pierre-Yves Desprez, Ph.D., senior scientist with CPMCRI and corresponding author of the new study. “We thought that the mechanisms for the progression of brain cancer would be quite different from that of breast and other cancers, and the fact that we were able to duplicate the same success for brain cancer that we did for breast, quite frankly, amazed us.” cpmc.org/about/press/news2012/cannabis-brain.html
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 21:35:09 +0000
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