http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/plastic-chemical-may-interfere-with-chemotherapy/
Now they say the chemical interferes with chemotherapy.
This was done quite a while back.
http://www.asco.org/ASCOv2/Meetings/Abstracts?&vmview=abst_detail_view&confID=23&abstractID=101188
Sure looks good. I had Stage 4 cancer for a year and a half and smoked marijuana nightly. I still do. I’ve been free of disease since 3/09, and my liver was free of mets earlier, by 6/08. I am only an anecodote–a single person whose case means nothing.
But do read this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/marijuana-and-cancer_n_1898208.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
Well-done round-up of where we are with metastatic SCAC.
http://www.isrn.com/journals/oncology/2012/756591/
He found Hainsworth’s study the “most encouraging.”
“The most encouraging results have been demonstrated in a phase II single arm study of paclitaxel, carboplatin, and continuous infusional 5FU in patients with advanced squamous carcinomas (
𝑛 = 6 0
) from multiple primary sites, given first or second line. Seven patients with SCC of the anus were included, of these four responded, two of whom had a complete response. The patients with a complete response then received consolidation radiotherapy to the primary tumour. The median duration of response in the anal subgroup was 26 months (range 10–63+) [14]. “
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22548144
My nutritionist at City of Hope noticed the trend and checked with the medical oncologists. She was right. That was in 2008.
Now researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that a single HPV protein is required for cervical cancer and even pre-cancer growths in the cervix to survive.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120917123856.htm
