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Living with lung cancer - Introduce yourself & come say hi
Lung Cancer | Last Active: Sep 25 12:58pm | Replies (1044)Comment receiving replies
@gazza- Good morning and welcome to Mayo Connect. I'm glad that you found us. What a great story you have! Other than CBD oil are you taking? Do you use inhalers? What kind of inoperable lung cancer do you have? Life is a mystery, isn't it. Somethings, that are "not suppose to" happen do just that. But there is very little known about the effects of CBD oil and it's benefits for a lot of things. I'm not suggesting that CBD oil did not have an effect on your cancer. Anything can happen and it's certainly is wonderful that your cancer is literally only hanging on by a thread.
You are a very brave man to have turned away suggested treatments, but as you say, and I do agree, the quality of life certainly is of upmost importance.
"There have been recent news stories about the potential promise of CBD and/or THC oil and fighting lung cancer, such as these news stories:
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Healthday/story?id=4506595&page=1
https://metro.co.uk/2018/03/25/could-cannabis-help-cure-lung-cancer-this-man-thinks-so-and-hes-already-spent-1-5m-on-research-7266643/
However, you'll note that both articles are quick to point out that any potential positive effects have only been studied in petri dishes or on mice in a laboratory (in vitro). This is not the same as testing and discovering positive effects in humans. So far CBD/THC is still less effective than current drugs and dosages have not been tested or proven." CY
Here is more information about studies done so far in vitro from the National Cancer Institute: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/hp/cannabis-pdq#section/_7 (medical professional version)
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/patient/cannabis-pdq#section/_3 (patient version. See answers to questions 6 and 7)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6043845/
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health/expert-answers/is-cbd-safe-and-effective/faq-20446700
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I should have said that I have non small cell lung cancer.I do not use inhalers. The only other thing I used initially was not from concentrate tomato juice as I had read on an American site that it might help to stop cancer becoming metastatic.I do not class myself as brave only realistic. The brave people are those firemen who went into the Twin Towers.
The other reason I turned down traditional treatment was that it is not good for elderly people because chemo kills good and bad cells and when you are old you do not replace the good cells quickly and thus the bad ones can spread much more easily round the body.
A lady I know who also lives in Staffordshire was diagnosed in summer 2018 with Grade 3 aggressive breast cancer 33 mm and lymph nodes in her neck and armpit 25 mm. She used a similar CBD oil and in spring 2018 the cancer was 7 mm and the nodes 4 mm. She recently said the cancer had started growing again but after more oil it was going down again.
I do not think that CBD oil is necessarily a cure but if a person has inoperable/terminal cancer then the oil can prolong the time you may be alive.