Cannabis may harm successful treatment for cancer patients

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Sep 08, 2020 | News | Other | National
Cannabis may harm successful treatment for cancer patients

Cannabis, widely used by cancer patients to help deal with the symptoms and side effects of various treatments, may impair the chances of success of immunotherapy, a new study shows.

Immunotherapy, considered to be the most significant breakthrough in the field of cancer treatment in the last decade, is a method of treatment which uses the patient's immune system to detect and attack cancer cells more effectively.

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