Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women worldwide. January is National Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. Because it is the second most common type of cancer for women worldwide, affecting over 12,000 American women annually, there is no better time to discuss ways you can prevent a recurrence of cervical cancer and options for support. HC and another cannabis derivative compound slow the spread of cervical cancer. The new results add to the fast growing number of animal and cell-culture studies viewing different anticancer effects for cannabinoids, chemical compounds derived from marijuana. Cannabinoids, and occasionally marijuana itself, are at present used to lessen the nausea and pain experienced by many cancer patients. An experiment explained in which insidious cervical cancer cells made their way through a tissue-like gel. Even at very low concentrations, the marijuana compounds THC and methanandamide (MA) significantly slowed the invading cancer cells.
