An actual scientific study on the effect of cannabinoids on cancer (thank you Spain)

[Gregorian]

It seems there aren't many of these out there. Well this looks quite promising. And it's another indication that cannabis is crucially important to the human species.

http://mct.aacrjournals.org/content/10/1/90.long

A Combined Preclinical Therapy of Cannabinoids and Temozolomide against Glioma

The conclusion:

The standard therapy for the management GBM includes surgical resection, focal radiotherapy, and treatment with the alkylating agent temozolomide (1, 2). Unfortunately this therapeutic approach increases only modestly the survival of GBM patients, whose life expectancy after diagnosis remains approximately to 12 to 15 months. It is therefore urgent to search for novel therapeutic approaches aimed at improving the poor prognosis of GBM patients. Results obtained by our group and others during the last decade have shown that THC, the main active component of marijuana, reduces the growth of different types of tumor xenografts including gliomas (11, 13–16, 18, 37–40). In this report, we find that the combined administration of TMZ and THC exerts a potent antitumoral action in glioma xenografts. Thus, treatment with these 2 agents inhibited tumor growth to much higher extent than the treatment with TMZ or THC alone. Furthermore, coadministration of TMZ and THC strongly reduced the growth of tumors that are resistant to the individual treatment with either of these 2 agents.