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Cannabis Compound May Stop Metastatic Breast Cancer


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However, "all the experiments in the paper have been conducted in cultured cells and none of them in any animal model of breast cancer, which would be one of the steps for further research," added Guzman, who is a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Complutense University in Madrid.

Guzman also noted that "Id-1 is just one of many genes involved in breast cancer metastasis" and that future research also needs to examine the impact of CBD on these other metastasis genes.

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There's more on breast cancer at the U.S. National Cancer Institute.

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Last updated 11/19/2007

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SOURCES: Sean D. McAllister, Ph.D., associate scientist, California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco; Pierre-Yves Desprez, Ph.D., staff scientist, California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco; Manuel Guzman, Ph.D., professor, biochemistry and molecular biology, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain; November 2007, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics


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