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Is marijuana helpful with cancer patients?
Marijuana is mostly used with chemotherapy patients. It can increase appetite and reduce nausea.
Can Marijuana help for nusea?
Not for everyone, but for most people, yes. Marijuana is commonly prescribed to treat nausea and increase appetite in cancer and AIDS patients.
Why do some physicians recommend that their cancer patients smoke marijuana?
Some physicians who treat cancer recommend that their patients use marijuana to relieve nausea and vomiting.
Is marijuana good for Cancer?
There is a debate as to the use of marijuana in cancer patients. The use would be to make them comfortable. It will not change the outcome.
Does cannabis help cancer pain?
There is evidence that marijuana helps with pain from cancer. It is unknown if it actually helps pain receptors but it does help many patients with discomfort.loss of appetite,nausea,etc.
Does secondhand marijuana smoke cause cancer?
No. If marijuana caused cancer they wouldn't give it to cancer patients to save their lives. Marijuana cures cancer.
Can prescribed marijuana help a person?
yes in many ways. it is very usefull for glacoma patients. Also it is used to make prolonged pain such as in cancer patients undergoing leukema.
Can you use marijuana as a pain killer?
You can use marijuana as a pain killer. If you have glaucoma, it reduces the pressure in your eyes.it can be used to be a pain killer with cancer patients in chemo, & it can help with back pain, etc.
If your on chemo can you take marijuana and help the process of killing cancer cells?
Marijuana will not help the chemotherapy kill cancer cells. What it can do is help you cope with the side effects of chemotherapy. It reduces stress, relieves pain, reduces nausea and vomiting, and increases appetite. This can help you feel better and the increased caloric intake and the fact that you'll keep more food down improve your body's ability to fight cancer. This is why many states allow cancer patients to use marijuana--not because it kills cancer cells, because it does not.
What are the risks of medical marijuana?
There is no risk. If there was, why would doctors give it to cancer patients?
Is it proven that marijuana stimulates hunger for cancer patients receiving chemotherapy?
Possibly not "proven", but it is common knowledge that marijuana has that effect; many 'legal' users of marijuana have it for that purpose.
What is marijuana used to treat?
It is used to increase appetite and decrease nausea in cancer and AIDS patients.
