translated from Spanish: Florida: 60 people with cancer have treated his pain with cannabis

Juan Morales life changed completely for a year and a half. In mid-2017 went from working as a gasfiter to withdrawing at home then that doctors diagnosed him, besides his heart problem, it suffered from a gastric cancer during a heart operation. Being a cancer patient began a palliative treatment in the Hospital Sótero del Río hospital, but their ailments linked to cancer began to rise. “I felt dizzy, I had to just leave the House because he vomited. I started to isolate”, features the 66-year-old man. To deal with these symptoms, to start this Morales year he joined an experimental treatment provided in Florida to treat these evils through the consumption of cannabis oil. With three months on this regime, the patient says already feel an improvement. “I am returning to my life little by little”, he said. The program is a clinical trial led by the municipality, the Foundation Daya and Knop laboratories, which seeks to assess whether an extract of marijuana has effect in the control of pain in patients with cancer, which this month celebrates two years. To prove it, a group of doctors monitored the progress of patients enrolled, providing them periodically and free oils based on cannabis for their gradual consumption for 12 months. The first doses are drawn and may be placebo for purposes of the study, but the third month all receive the real medicine. According to the principal investigator of the estudio, Ricardo Mercado, to date 60 cancer patients have participated in the program, who met the requirements of having a cancer with solid tumors, be trying and feel pain despite the painkillers that you supplies your doctor. In this group there are some who already completed their treatment. It is the case of Galvarino Pérez, an excarabinero that 2016 was diagnosed with terminal cancer in the leg. “Before not walking nothing. I hurt much. I could not move, I delayed many things,”said the exuniformado commenting on the improvement in their situation. Perez, 71 years, ended in January its participation in the study, after one year using medical marijuana. When he arrived, he says his prognosis of life was null, since 2016 told him that his survival was two months, but now it says to a “normal” life after soothe their pains. “When one is in such conditions Strip swipes of drowning for all parties, and if say me ‘this is good’ I’m going to do,” said about the plan. For project managers, cases like the Galvarino allow to envisage that a cannabis-based treatment may be beneficial for cancer medicine in the country. This was stated by the Mayor Rodolfo Carter, who emphasized that these effects “shows that they have to open the prejudiced minds of always, which historically have prevented progress”.
Resultadossegun the initial planning, it was expected that to this date the study could be concluded with a report supporting acting marijuana medicine. However, the doctor in charge said that so still 100 more people try the plan, to enlarge the sample, what is expected complete this year. Despite this, preliminary market requires a “satisfactory” study, since “the experience of patients is good” and they have not had “adverse events” linked to the medicine. To participate in the study you must write to the email cannabismedicinal@comudef.cl or call the 982332184.

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