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July 06, 2003

Marijuana Helped Rats With Brain Tumors

ABCNEWS.com : Marijuana Helped Rats With Brain Tumors

Promising Results of Brain Cancer Study Questioned by Some Critics

The Associated Press
N E W Y O R K, Feb. 29 — Marijuana-like drugs eradicated some brain cancers in rats and helped other animals live longer, according to a study published in the March issue of the journal Nature Medicine.

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But Dr. Philip Gutin, chief of neurosurgery at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, said other experimental therapies work better in rats. And the paper doesn’t demonstrate that the effect came from the drugs rather than simply the infusion of liquid into the brain, he said.

Dr. Rolf Barth, who studies brain tumors at Ohio State University, called the work interesting. But he said the type of glioma cells used to create the tumors does not provide a very good mimic of the human disease.

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