Tag: Cachexia
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Marijuana and Cachexia (Wasting Syndrome)
Cancer patients suffer mostly from wasting and appetite loss which, not only lessens their quality of life, but hastens death as these conditions develop cachexia which is an unbalanced loss of lean body tissue. Cachexia arises during the final stages of advanced pancreatic, lung, and prostate cancers. Proteins called cytokines, generated by the immune system…