Many use cannabis products as pain relief and to ease the side effects of breast cancer treatment, new research finds.
The majority of the participants, 70 percent, believed that cannabis should be viewed as a plant-based medicine, that natural products are better than “chemicals” and that the benefits of cannabis outweighed the risks. Moreover, 49 percent of the cannabis users said they believed that medical cannabis could be used to treat the cancer itself.
“Some of these products can interact with treatments they are taking, and there is a safety issue there,” she said. “We want to make sure they get relief from their symptoms without interfering with the treatments.” The new report shows that “not a lot of patients are talking to their doctors about this,” Bernik said. And that means that the doctors can’t take cannabis into account when they are deciding dosages of cancer drugs, she added.
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