More rigorous trials are needed to confirm the findings, the Canadian researchers say.
Medicinal cannabis can help relieve pain caused by cancer and reduce the number of drugs patients need, Canadian research suggests.
Products with an equal balance of the active ingredients tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol seemed to be the most effective.Of the patients studied:The most common side-effects were:The researchers, from McGill University, in Montreal, Harvard Medical School, in Boston and the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, among others, say about a third of all cancer patients and two-thirds of those who are terminally ill experience moderate to severe pain.
But more rigorous trials using a control group to compare the effects of cannabis medicines with a dummy drug are needed to confirm the findings, the researchers say.
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