Cannabis and Cannabinoids (PDQ®)–Health Professional Version

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Changes to This Summary (06/19/2018)

The PDQ cancer information summaries are reviewed regularly and updated as new information becomes available. This section describes the latest changes made to this summary as of the date above.

Human/Clinical Studies

Added text about a study of Cannabis use and the incidence of testicular cancer in Swedish men between 1970 and 2011 (cited Callaghan et al. as reference 15).

Added Patterns of Cannabis Use Among Cancer Patients as a new subsection.

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