[MedicalConspiracies] Cannabinoids for Cancer Treatment: Progress and Promise — Cancer Re

Cannabinoids for Cancer Treatment: Progress and Promise — Cancer Res

 

Cannabinoids for Cancer Treatment: Progress and Promise

1. Sami Sarfaraz,
2. Vaqar M. Adhami,
3. Deeba N. Syed,
4. Farrukh Afaq, and
5. Hasan Mukhtar

+ Author Affiliations

1. Chemoprevention Program, Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

1. Requests for reprints:
   Hasan Mukhtar, Department of Dermatology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1300, University Avenue, Medical Sciences Center, B-25, Madison, WI 53706. Phone: 608-263-3927; Fax: 608-263-5223; E-mail: hmukhtar@wisc.edu.

Abstract

Cannabinoids are a class of pharmacologic compounds that offer potential applications as antitumor drugs, based on the ability of some members of this class to limit inflammation, cell proliferation, and cell survival. In particular, emerging evidence suggests that agonists of cannabinoid receptors expressed by tumor cells may offer a novel strategy to treat cancer. Here, we review recent work that raises interest in the development and exploration of potent, nontoxic, and nonhabit forming cannabinoids for cancer therapy. [Cancer Res 2008;68(2):339–42]

• cannabinoids
• cannabinoid receptors
• cancer

Footnotes

• Received July 20, 2007.
• Revision received October 19, 2007.
• Accepted October 29, 2007. Peace Hugs and Purrs,

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