New research shows medicinal cannabis helps relieve cancer pain and can actually cut down how many drugs people need. It's the latest evidence for the use of medical marijuana to treat pain.
, researchers including from the School of Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons Dublin and the Medical Cannabis Programme in Oncology at Cedars Cancer Centre in Canada concluded that medicinal cannabis is ‘a safe and effective complementary treatment for pain relief in patients with cancer’.
The team studied 358 adults with cancer whose details were recorded by the Quebec Cannabis Registry in Canada between May 2015 and October 2018. The patients’ average age was 57, 48% were men, and the three most common cancer diagnoses were genitourinary, breast and bowel.Pain was the most frequently reported symptom that prompted a prescription of medicinal cannabis.
Medicinal cannabis seemed to be safe and generally well-tolerated in the study. The two most common side-effects were sleepiness, reported by three patients, and fatigue, reported by two.
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