patients with hormone-independent metastatic breast cancer smoke marijuana. For one thing, a sufficient amount of CBD could never be obtained in that way, they said.
The research that has been done on marijuana and its compounds, however, is helpful, McAllister, said. CBD has been around for a long time, and researchers have found it is not psychoactive, and its “toxicity is very low,” he added.
The new findings were published in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. If McAllister’s and Desprez’s work results in the development of a cancer treatment, someone with metastatic cancer might be placed on CBD for several years. That means low toxicity is important, McAllister explained.
McAllister also suggested that Id-1 is “so important in providing the [metastatic] mechanism in these cells in so many types of cancers” that they “provide us an opportunity potentially to target other types of cancers.”
The study’s findings were “a serendipitous discovery, in a way,” McAllister said. Desprez noted that he had been working on the Id-1 gene for 12 years. His lab had