The medical necessity for medicinal cannabis: Prospective, observational study evaluating the treatment in cancer patients on supportive or palliative care

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Bar Sela, Gil ^a,b   Vorobeichik, Marina ^a   Drawsheh, Saher ^a   Omer, Anat ^a   Goldberg, Victoria ^a   Muller, Ella ^a  

^a Rambam Health Care Campus   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS;

ACUTE PSYCHOSIS; ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ANGER; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED NAUSEA AND VOMITING; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; SMOKING; SOMNOLENCE; THROAT DISEASE; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 84881483596     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/510392     Document Type: Article

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