Palliative Care – Society of Cannabis Clinicians https://www.cannabisclinicians.org Educating Healthcare Professionals about the Medical Use of Cannabis Sat, 24 Sep 2022 14:07:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.3 https://www.cannabisclinicians.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/cropped-scc-flavicon-32x32.png Palliative Care – Society of Cannabis Clinicians https://www.cannabisclinicians.org 32 32 A Case Series of the Role of Cannabis Based Medicine in the Palliative Care Setting https://www.cannabisclinicians.org/2022/09/24/a-case-series-of-the-role-of-cannabis-based-medicine-in-the-palliative-care-setting/ Sat, 24 Sep 2022 14:07:55 +0000 https://www.cannabisclinicians.org/?p=26793 Complex refractory pain is highly prevalent in the palliative care setting. Opioid therapies play a pivotal role in pain management, but have an extensive side effect profile and frequently fail to provide sufficient relief, despite dose optimisation or concurrent use of standard adjuvant analgesics.(1) Therefore, identification of novel analgesics to alleviate pain would be very beneficial.(2)Currently, there is equipoise within the available clinical evidence of the efficacy and safety of cannabis-based medications in the management of pain.(3) This is a case series of three patients with complex pain, with inadequate pain relief with standard multimodal analgesia. Each of these patients were commenced on Sativex, an oromucosal spray composed of two cannabis extracts, delta-9- tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol, and the dose was titrated until therapeutic benefit was
achieved. All three cases demonstrated a positive analgesic effect without any adverse symptoms.

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]]> Experience With Medical Marijuana for Cancer Patients in the Palliative Setting https://www.cannabisclinicians.org/2022/08/11/experience-with-medical-marijuana-for-cancer-patients-in-the-palliative-setting/ Thu, 11 Aug 2022 08:44:13 +0000 https://www.cannabisclinicians.org/?p=26608 Authors Karna T. Sura, Leslie Kohman, Danning Huang, Silviu V. Pasniciuc Published June 28, 2022 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.26406 Citations Sura K T, Kohman L, Huang D, et al. (June 28, 2022)...

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]]> Mini-Review Cannabis in palliative care: current challenges and practical recommendations https://www.cannabisclinicians.org/2021/05/18/mini-review-cannabis-in-palliative-care-current-challenges-and-practical-recommendations/ Tue, 18 May 2021 23:06:16 +0000 https://www.cannabisclinicians.org/?p=23040 Pain and symptom control challenges are common in palliative care, and the search for other therapeutic strategies is ongoing. Unfortunately, patients and their caregivers are receiving little information or support from healthcare providers regarding the increasingly popular cannabinoid-based medicines (CBM). Clinicians, meanwhile, feel understandably perplexed by the discrepancy between the available evidence and the rapid interest in which patients and their families have demonstrated for CBM. There is an urgent need to address the many challenges that are delaying the appropriate integration of CBM into clinical practice, notwithstanding the obvious need for a solid general knowledge of pharmacology, mechanism of action and available clinical evidence supporting its use

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]]> Benefit of Tetrahydrocannabinol versus Cannabidiol for Common Palliative Care Symptoms. https://www.cannabisclinicians.org/2019/08/06/benefit-of-tetrahydrocannabinol-versus-cannabidiol-for-common-palliative-care-symptoms/ Tue, 06 Aug 2019 13:46:23 +0000 https://www.cannabisclinicians.org/?p=15239 Authors: David J. Casarett, Jessica N. Beliveau, and Michelle S. Arbus
Journal of Palliative Medicine, 6 August 2019
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Objectives: To determine the relative contributions of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) to patients' self-ratings of efficacy for common palliative care symptoms. Design: This is an electronic record-based retrospective cohort study. Model development used logi...

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]]> Opportunities for cannabis in supportive care in cancer. https://www.cannabisclinicians.org/2019/08/01/opportunities-for-cannabis-in-supportive-care-in-cancer/ Thu, 01 Aug 2019 13:52:22 +0000 https://www.cannabisclinicians.org/?p=15244 Authors: Amber S. Kleckner, Ian R. Kleckner, Charles S. Kamen, Mohamedtaki A. Tejani, et al
Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology, 1 August 2019
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Cannabis has the potential to modulate some of the most common and debilitating symptoms of cancer and its treatments, including nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, and pain. However, the dearth of scientific evidence for the effectiveness of cannabis in treating these symp...

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]]> A hunger for hunger: a review of palliative therapies for cancer-associated anorexia. https://www.cannabisclinicians.org/2019/01/01/a-hunger-for-hunger-a-review-of-palliative-therapies-for-cancer-associated-anorexia/ Tue, 01 Jan 2019 17:23:08 +0000 https://www.cannabisclinicians.org/?p=14373 Authors: Daniel S. Childs, Aminah Jatoi
Annals of Palliative Medicine, January 2019
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Cancer-associated anorexia, or loss of appetite, is prevalent, distressing to patients and their families, and associated with poorer outcomes in patients with advanced cancer. A well-defined therapeutic strategy remains to be defined. We present here a review of appetite loss...

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]]> Cannabis in palliative care: current challenges and practical recommendations https://www.cannabisclinicians.org/2018/10/01/in-vivo-evidence-for-therapeutic-properties-of-cannabidiol-cbd-for-alzheimers-disease-4-5/ Tue, 02 Oct 2018 00:29:07 +0000 http://www.cannabisclinicians.org/?p=13434 Authors: Claude Cyr, Maria Fernanda Arboleda, Sunil Kumar Aggarwal, Lynda G. Balneaves, Paul Daeninck, Andrée Néron, Erin Prosk, Antonio Vigano
Annals of Palliative Medicine, October 2018
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Pain and symptom control challenges are common in palliative care, and the search for other therapeutic strategies is ongoing. Unfortunately, patients and their caregivers are receiving little information or support from healthcare providers regarding the increasingly popular…

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]]> Use of cannabinoids in cancer care: palliative care. https://www.cannabisclinicians.org/2016/03/01/use-of-cannabinoids-in-cancer-care-palliative-care/ Tue, 01 Mar 2016 19:54:18 +0000 https://www.cannabisclinicians.org/?p=15642 Authors: S.K. Aggarwal
Current Oncology, March 2016
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Integrating cim into oncologic palliative care promises to improve overall health-related quality of life, to provide further relief from distressing symptoms and spiritual suffering, and to bring hope to patients and families facing terminal illness. O’Shaughnessy offers the...

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]]> The medical necessity for medicinal cannabis: prospective, observational study evaluating the treatment in cancer patients on supportive or palliative care. https://www.cannabisclinicians.org/2013/01/01/the-medical-necessity-for-medicinal-cannabis/ Tue, 01 Jan 2013 16:42:56 +0000 http://cannabisclinicians.org/?p=5449 Authors: Gil Bar-Sela, Marina Vorobeichik, Saher Drawsheh, Anat Omer, Victoria Goldberg, Ella Muller
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2013
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BACKGROUND: Cancer patients using cannabis report better influence from the plant extract than from synthetic products. However, almost all the research conducted to date has been performed with synthetic products. We followed patients with a medicinal cannabis license to eval...

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]]> Cannabis in palliative medicine: improving care and reducing opioid-related morbidity. https://www.cannabisclinicians.org/2011/08/01/cannabis-in-palliative-medicine-improving-care-and-reducing-opioid-related-morbidity/ Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:49:44 +0000 https://www.cannabisclinicians.org/?p=15614 Authors: Gregory T. Carter, Aaron M. Flanagan, Mitchell Earleywine, Donald I. Abrams, et al
American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, August 2011
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Unlike hospice, long-term drug safety is an important issue in palliative medicine. Opioids may produce significant morbidity. Cannabis is a safer alternative with broad applicability for palliative care. Yet the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) classifies cannabis as Schedule I...

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