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06-05-2004, 12:05 PM
Pot Doesn't Increase Oral-Cancer Risk, Study Says
Posted by CN Staff on June 02, 2004 at 17:25:23 PT
By Kyung M. Song, Seattle Times Staff Reporter
Source: Seattle Times
Recreational marijuana smokers are no more likely to develop oral cancer than nonusers, a new study led by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center says. The latest findings contradict a 1999 California study that implicated regular pot smoking as having markedly higher risks for head and neck cancers.
While not conclusive, the findings by "The Hutch," located in Seattle, suggest that cancers of the mouth should rank low among the known health hazards of marijuana use.
Oral cancer "probably shouldn't be one of the things people should worry about when they decide whether to smoke marijuana," said Stephen Schwartz, a member of Fred Hutchinson's public-health sciences division and the study's senior author. "Our study found no relationship between marijuana and cancer."
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Posted by CN Staff on June 02, 2004 at 17:25:23 PT
By Kyung M. Song, Seattle Times Staff Reporter
Source: Seattle Times
Recreational marijuana smokers are no more likely to develop oral cancer than nonusers, a new study led by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center says. The latest findings contradict a 1999 California study that implicated regular pot smoking as having markedly higher risks for head and neck cancers.
While not conclusive, the findings by "The Hutch," located in Seattle, suggest that cancers of the mouth should rank low among the known health hazards of marijuana use.
Oral cancer "probably shouldn't be one of the things people should worry about when they decide whether to smoke marijuana," said Stephen Schwartz, a member of Fred Hutchinson's public-health sciences division and the study's senior author. "Our study found no relationship between marijuana and cancer."
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http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18939.shtml