Canna~Fangled Abstracts

Striking lung cancer response to self-administration of cannabidiol: A case report and literature review.

By February 28, 2019No Comments
2019 Feb 21;7:2050313X19832160. doi: 10.1177/2050313X19832160. eCollection 2019.

Abstract

In spite of new drugs, lung cancer is associated with a very poor prognosis. While targeted therapies are improving outcomes, it is not uncommon for many patients to have only a partial response, and relapse during follow-up. Thus, new drugs or re-evaluation of existing therapies used to treat other non-malignant diseases (drug repurposing) are still needed. While this research both in vitro and in vivo is being carried out, it is important to be attentive to patients where the disease responds to treatments not considered standard in clinical practice. We report here a patient with adenocarcinoma of the lung who, after declining chemotherapy and radiotherapy, presented with tumour response following self-administration of cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive compound present in Cannabis sativa. Prior work has shown that cannabidiol may have anti-neoplastic properties and enhance the immune response to cancer. The data presented here indicate that cannabidiol might have led to a striking response in a patient with lung cancer.

KEYWORDS:

Lung cancer; cannabidiol; cannabinoid

PMID: 30815264
PMCID: PMC6385325
DOI: 10.1177/2050313X19832160

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Declaration of conflicting interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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