Marijuana Cuts Lung Cancer Tumor Growth in Half, Harvard Study Shows

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Marijuana Cuts Lung Cancer Tumor Growth in Half, Harvard Study Shows



Friday, 13 May 2011 09:15

'The active ingredient in marijuana cuts tumor growth in common lung cancer in half and significantly reduces the ability of the cancer to spread, say researchers at Harvard University who tested the chemical in both lab and mouse studies.

They say this is the first set of experiments to show that the compound, Delta-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), inhibits EGF-induced growth and migration in epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) expressing non-small cell lung cancer cell lines. Lung cancers that over-express EGFR are usually highly aggressive and resistant to chemotherapy.'
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[petros]

Pot is evil!

 

[darkbeaver]

Cancer patients just want to get high. Harvard will be carpet bombed and paved before the pharma****ical industry is finally charged for grannies painful cancer death along with the gutless politicians who were paid to torture old people out of their savings while addicting them to high tech junk. Harvard is late to the race, **** them, they suck boils anyway.

 

[CUBert]

i thought smoking this stuff caused lung cancer? ? ? ? :shaking2::shaking2::shaking2:

 

[karrie]

i thought smoking this stuff caused lung cancer? ? ? ? :shaking2::shaking2::shaking2:

Eat it.

 

[taxslave]

That little bomb shell will not make the mandrins at DEA happy. Tough to BS people about the evils of pot when we know for a fact that it is beneficial.