Cancer / Leukemia & Cannabis
Overview
In the year 2000, approximately 256,000 children and adults around the world developed some form of leukemia, and 209,000 died from it. About 90% of all leukemia new cases are diagnosed in adults.
Science & Research Studies
be improved by altering the sequence of their administration.
2017 - Full Study ~ Cannabidiol Reduces Leukemic Cell Size - But Is It Important?
2016 - Abstract ~ Phytochemicals as adjunctive with conventional anticancer therapies.
haematological malignancies?
Therapeutic Exploitation.
leukemia with lymphoid differentiation patterns.
disease.
study.
Neurobiology of Stress.
Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation.
2013 - Full Study ~ Cannabis extract treatment for terminal acute lymphoblastic leukemia with a Philadelphia chromosome mutation.
Case Reports on Oncology.
2013 - Abstract ~ Enhancing the Activity of Cannabidiol and Other Cannabinoids In Vitro Through
Modifications to Drug Combinations and Treatment Schedules.
National Library of Medicine.
2012 - Full Study ~ Tumor necrosis factor activation of vagal afferent terminal calcium is blocked by cannabinoids.
Journal of Neuroscience.
2011 - Abstract ~ Cannabidiol induced a contrasting pro-apoptotic effect between freshly isolated and precultured human monocytes.
2010 - Full Study ~ Substance use and survival after treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) or myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS).
2008 - Abstract ~ Enhancing the in vitro cytotoxic activity of Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol in leukemic cells through a combinatorial approach.
Journal of Leukemia and Lymphoma.
2008 - Full Study ~ Medical Marijuana Cannabis Use and Research.
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
2007 - Full Study ~ HU-331, a novel cannabinoid-based anticancer topoisomerase II inhibitor.
Molecular Cancer Theropeutics.
2006 - Abstract ~ Cannabidiol-Induced Apoptosis in Human Leukemia Cells: A Novel Role of Cannabidiol in the Regulation of p22phox and Nox4 Expression.
Molecular Pharmacology.
2006 - Abstract ~ Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol-induced apoptosis in Jurkat leukemia T cells is regulated by translocation of Bad to mitochondria.
National Library of Medicine.
2006 - Full Study ~ Is there a temperature-dependent uptake of anandamide into cells?
British Journal Of Pharmacology.
2006 - Abstract ~ Parental marijuana use and risk of childhood acute myeloid leukaemia: a report from the Children's Cancer Group (United States and Canada)
Nationa;l Library of Medicine.
2006 - Abstract ~ The effects of cannabinoids on P-glycoprotein transport and expression in multidrug resistant cells.
Biochemical Pharmacology.
2005 - Abstract ~ Cannabis-induced cytotoxicity in leukemic cell lines: the role of the cannabinoid receptors and the MAPK pathway.
National Center of Biotechnology Information.
2002 - Abstract ~ Targeting CB2 cannabinoid receptors as a novel therapy to treat malignant lymphoblastic disease.
Blood Journal.
2000 - Full Study ~ Anandamide Induces Apoptosis in Human Cells via Vanilloid Receptors. (EVIDENCE FOR A PROTECTIVE ROLE OF CANNABINOID RECEPTORS.)
Journal of Biological Chemistry.
1988 - Full Study ~ Fatal aspergillosis associated with smoking contaminated marijuana, in a marrow transplant recipient.
Chest Journal.
1987 - Full Study ~ Cannabinoids induce incomplete maturation of cultured human leukemia cells.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.