'Cannabis cure for brain cancer' headline is misleading
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By Kat Arney
Earlier this week the Daily Mail reported that a young US boy’s brain tumour had been ‘cured’ after his father secretly gave him cannabis oil through his feeding tube.
The bold headline hides a more important truth: the boy was also receiving high-dose chemotherapy, and it is this – rather than the cannabis oil – that is likely to have treated his cancer.
Despite the headline, the story points out that the cannabis oil may well have helped to relieve some of the symptoms of th...
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