Chemotherapy Essay

Chemotherapy is very often an effective treatment for many different forms cancer. As common with many drugs, chemotherapy comes with unpleasant side effects that are dependent on cancer location, cancer type, drugs and doses, and the overall health of the patient. Chemotherapy affects active cancer cells, but it can also damage healthy active cell that causes side effects. There are different types of chemotherapy treatments that share common side effects, however, side effects can manifest differently in each patient. The chemotherapy drug doxorubicin is known to cause cardia damage, and cannabis research has shown that cannabidiol (CBD), a major nonpsychoactive compound found in the plant Cannabis sativa suppress myocardial toxicity.
Doxorubicin
This chemotherapy drug is used to many different cancers and administered intravenously. It is a form of chemotherapy drug known as an anthracycline, which is used to treat lymphoma, leukemia, multiple myeloma, and breast cancer. It reduces or halts the growth of cancer cells, and it works in one way by blocking the enzyme topo
The team of researchers from King Faisal University conducted a 4-week experiment in which the rats were treated with 2.5mg/kg of Doxorubicin every 48 hours for two weeks (total of 15 mg/kg), along with 5mg/kg of CBD every day lasting for 4 weeks.Source http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1382668913001129
To test CBD’s effect, the researchers evaluated the level of damage that doxorubicin caused to the heart by measuring the levels of creatine Kinase-MB, which is an enzyme generally employed in measuring heart damage. Additionally, the researchers measured troponin T levels in an effort to the level of damage that resulted from heart