Animal studies conducted by researchers from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) find that extracts from whole-plant marijuana were found to kill cancer cells and shrink brain tumors.
Extracts from the plants can help enhance the impact of radiation therapy, the Mirror reported.
According to the reports, recent animal studies have shown that marijuana can kill certain cancer cells and reduce the size of others.
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Cannabis has a long history of medicinal, recreational, and industrial use and comes from a bushy plant with thick sticky flowers called Cannabis Sativa
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Research in mice showed that these extracts, when used with radiation, increased the cancer-killing effects of the radiation.
Source: ANI
Brain Tumor
Brain tumors are the abnormal growth of brain cells that may be benign or metastatic. Brain tumors account for about 2.4% of all the tumor diagnosesandare most challenging due to their critically delicate location.
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