{"id":129161,"date":"2021-10-18T20:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T03:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/lung-cancer-patient-who-had-declined-conventional-cancer-treatment-could-the-self-administration-of-cbd-oil-be-contributing-to-the-observed-tumour-regression"},"modified":"2021-10-18T20:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T03:22:21","slug":"lung-cancer-patient-who-had-declined-conventional-cancer-treatment-could-the-self-administration-of-cbd-oil-be-contributing-to-the-observed-tumour-regression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/lung-cancer-patient-who-had-declined-conventional-cancer-treatment-could-the-self-administration-of-cbd-oil-be-contributing-to-the-observed-tumour-regression","title":{"rendered":"Lung cancer patient who had declined conventional cancer treatment: could the self-administration of \u2018CBD oil\u2019 be contributing to the observed tumour regression?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lung-cancer-patient-who-had-declined-conventional-cancer-treatment-could-the-self-administration-of-cbd-oil-be-contributing-to-the-observed-tumour-regression2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conventional lung cancer treatments include surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy; however, these treatments are often poorly tolerated by patients. Cannabinoids have been studied for use as a primary cancer treatment. Cannabinoids, which are chemically similar to our own body\u2019s endocannabinoids, can interact with signalling pathways to control the fate of cells, including cancer cells. We present a patient who declined conventional lung cancer treatment. Without the knowledge of her clinicians, she chose to self-administer \u2018cannabidiol (CBD) oil\u2019 orally 2\u20133 times daily. Serial imaging shows that her cancer reduced in size progressively from 41 mm to 10 mm over a period of 2.5 years. Previous studies have failed to agree on the usefulness of cannabinoids as a cancer treatment. This case appears to demonstrate a possible benefit of \u2018CBD oil\u2019 intake that may have resulted in the observed tumour regression. The use of cannabinoids as a potential cancer treatment justifies further research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conventional lung cancer treatments include surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy; however, these treatments are often poorly tolerated by patients. Cannabinoids have been studied for use as a primary cancer treatment. Cannabinoids, which are chemically similar to our own body\u2019s endocannabinoids, can interact with signalling pathways to control the fate of cells, including cancer cells. We present [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}