Just Diagnosed with Cancer

[thcbongman]

"Distributing unfounded medical information is dangerous, and stupid. There is no solid medical evidence showing high grade marijuana can cure cancer. Not liking what chemo did to someone IS NOT a reason to suggest someone skip it altogether. Ugh."

Medical evidence? Take a look here if you havent already:

http://boards.cannabis.com/medicinal...-everyone.html

Another good reason to "skip it altogether" would be mounting evidence that at least 25% of secondary cancers are caused by the chemicals in chemo, that stuff is so bad in so many ways. Its also been shown time and time again that people who dont have chemo often live up to 4 times longer than those that have it.

Its a crazy world we're living in folks.

It definitely is a crazy world where people say crazy things and do crazy things.

You are absolutely nuts to suggest that super herbs is the cure for thousands of types of a mitotic diseases.

Also chemo although harsh, isn't that bad with the supplement of herb.

It would be one thing to suggest perhaps forgoing chemo if a woman had stage I breast cancer doing a diet/supplement regiment. It's another thing to suggest this if someone had stage IV lymphomia hodgkins. In that case, metastasis has taken hold and sorry, herb doesn't stop it. Otherwise no one would have cancer. My cancer would've never spread if that were the case.

[Dave Byrd]

This is not just a crazy world where people say and do dangerous things. A couple of these are crazy, dangerous and medically irresponsible posts.

Thank goodness there are people here like THCBongman and Rebgirl who are testaments to the fact that traditional chemotherapies can and do effectively cure cancers. Thank goodness patients like the original poster of this thread listen to their legitimate doctors and take that advice, not absurd advice like that bit above about oleandar extract. My wife's in Houston this week doing prep for her board exams, but I'm going to ask another mod to look at a couple of the irresponsible threads above.

Be perfectly clear on this point. No one has found anything that works better for mitotic neoplastic diseases than traditional chemotherapies and radiation treatments. This combined with the fact that we have better and earlier diagnostics is why modern medicine is enjoying ever-increasing cure rates for cancer. Those rates will only continue to get better. There's incontrovertible pathological evidence that 95% of secondary cancers, by the way, are caused by primary cancers. We know this by simply looking under a microscope and seeing the original cancer cells when they've returned in new areas. It has NOT been shown that people who don't have chemo live four times longer than those who do. People who don't have chemo either die sooner or they live as long as they were meant to because they have slow-growing cancers that weren't destined to kill them in the first place.

Cannabis is good for treating chemo symptoms, but Katyowns is quite correct. No one has yet proven that cannabis is a cure for any type of cancer. In the links that Storm Crow loves to promote on this site, people need to notice that no where do any of those writeups StormCrow's links abstract studies in which cannabis isolates like synthetic THC and/or CBD are given to mice or affect cells in a petri dish in a seemingly positive manner. That's not the same thing as saying weed cures cancer. Not by a long shot. We seem to have hopeful evidence that the active ingredient THC has an impressive impact on glial cell death/glioma brain tumors. That's being studied in depth right now at a medical center in Spain. That's as far as the evidence goes--hopeful indications with some cells in response to isolated cannabis ingredients.

[stinkyattic]

Educate yourself by talking to multiple oncologists- NOT by listening to the advice of would-be 'doctors' on the internet.

There is a lot of bullshit floating around, and this site has a policy of discouraging irresponsible medical and legal advice, which Aspire420 has already been formally warned about, ahem. Also your referencing treating cancer with one of the 'other substances' we don't discuss here is simply ridiculous... kind of like your explanation of how to hybridize roses, or your telling that landlord he could let tenants grow outdoors on his property without fear of the federal agents, lol... :wtf: If you can't get it right, don't pretend to understand.

Best of luck in finding a successful treatment for your cancer, but this thread is closed due to the dangerous advice being given.

Edit: There's one MD on this thread, and a med student in rotations... listen to Dave Byrd and Birdgirl's advice, which is based in solid medical practice, and discuss any alternative therapy that interests you with your oncologist.