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Colombian Doctor Investigates Potential of Cannabis Against Aggressive Brain Cancer
['Leon Thompson']
Colombia One: News from Colombia and the World
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...Glioblastoma multiforme, the most aggressive primary brain cancer, grows rapidly, invades healthy brain tissue, and often reappears even after treatment.
Among them, Turizo Smith primarily analyzed cannabigerol and cannabichromene, which showed potent cytotoxic activity, meaning they were capable of inducing the death of cancer cells, the UNAL News Agency, Unimedios, reported.
“As cancer becomes more aggressive and malignant, the tissue loses the characteristics of normal cells and begins to behave similarly to a stem cell.
In addition, the research results showed that these cannabis compounds could help relieve some symptoms associated with glioblastoma, especially epileptic seizures.
Crossing this barrier represents an important advance, since conventional treatments for this brain tumor have difficulty penetrating it, with the exception of temozolomide.