Cannabis oil...cure...adjuvant therapy?

[Lombardi24]

Any comments on Dennis Hill's claim to curing his stage 4 pros cancer with cannabis oil? The science sounds...sound....

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I'm about to break guidelines, I think.

In a non-scientific, non-blind, one person study, it is determined that CBD, with THC, was found to provide excellent pain relief from bony mets. Now in it's seventh year, the "patient" claims to have no pain from the several mets he claims to have. Future imaging remains to be done to determine how the mets are reacting (July).

Joe

[Neal-Snyder]

I don't know what guidelines Joe might be concerned about, but maybe I'll break them too. I believe cannabis has therapeutic value. I don't know whether it could cure PCa. What anyone reports about himself or herself has little value. What the guy wrote is too dense & scientific for me. I watched some of his video. He said his primary cancer was cured in 3 months of cannabis treatment. He used a 1:1 ratio of CBD to THC. He then treated himself for another 3 months. He says a biopsy showed he had no more cancer. A biopsy? What am I missing here? Wouldn't he have needed imaging? What was his PSA?

Here's another thing that didn't set right with me. He says with the 1:1 CBD to THC ratio, there are no psychoactive effects. I've had 3:1, 4:1 & 5:1 & still felt the effects.

[Neal-Snyder in reply to Neal-Snyder]

Oops, I meant to say the 3 months of further treatment was because he had mets.

[Lombardi24]

Unless...he still has his prostate and it was biopsied following the use of cannabis oil.

[Tak-Druk]

I went on an intensive cannabis oil protocol for about three and a half months with THC and CBD. I won't go into details, but I built up to more than a couple hundred milligrams of each per day (and I was highly altered! even with increasing tolerance.). My PSA continued to rise, and I decided it was time for ADT with 'prophylactic' chemo (6 infusions of docetaxel.) My lung tumors shrank by half and my PSA remains undetectable over two years later (may that continue!)

Maybe cannabis is a 'cure' for some, but not for me. However... I do believe it can be very beneficial in many ways and I still use it. I'm not in pain, but it's very good to help with that. It helps me with sleep. And I believe that CBD may also help counter bodily inflammation that is unhealthy for us. I can only hope that it inhibits the cancer itself, but my personal experiment suggested it was not enough on its own - at least for my biology.

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I've discussed several times my thoughts on medical marijuana. Bottom line: I'm starting it very soon because it has many proven cancer-fighting and SE-fighting capabilities. I presume the SEARCH function will quickly dredge up what I and others have said about it, especially including getting our information from medical sources, not High Times or Rolling Stone. MM is very easy to use properly, very commonly misused, varies dramatically in its effects from one individual to another, and should be titrated experimentally to account for those individual differences. We need both the THC and the CBD, and enough to get high is too much for medicinal purposes.

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Before I knew I had PCa I used medical cannabis for pain, insomnia, and depression. It worked well for all three with no significant SEs so it's still part of my "tool bag" now if I need it. It may have some weak anti-tumor effects, but it's not considered a treatment for any kind of cancer. I prefer to go with scientific studies even though I realize that there is some bias there away from natural remedies. There is a profit motive that drives much of the research. But I can't go to this conspiracy mentality that "They" are making sure that all sorts of natural "cures" are somehow kept from us.

I would like to see more research done on cannabis in general though. For example, we already know that while cannabis does not replace opioid based pain meds, it significantly reduces the dependence on them. That's important because Cannabis doesn't have the side effects and is not as addictive as opioids.