Clinical Trial Shows Medical Cannabis Extracts Improve Sleep, Anxiety, and Fatigue in About Half of Cancer Patients
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Anthony Martinelli
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A randomized, placebo-controlled, triple-blind clinical trial involving symptomatic outpatients from eight Canadian cancer centers found that medical cannabis extracts (THC-dominant, CBD-dominant, or combined) provided meaningful relief for cancer-related symptoms—particularly sleep, anxiety, and daytime tiredness—in about half of patients. The study was published on medRxiv.
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· 3 pulledA new randomized, placebo-controlled, triple-blind clinical trial found that medical cannabis extracts may provide meaningful relief for cancer-related symptoms in about half of patients, particularly for sleep, anxiety and daytime tiredness.
The study, published on medRxiv, involved clinically stable but symptomatic outpatients from eight Canadian cancer centers.
Participants tested three blinded sublingual cannabis extracts—THC-dominant, CBD-dominant…
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