NCT03245658

The Effect of Cannabis in Pancreatic Cancer

The Effect of Medical Cannabis Inpatients With Palliative Pancreatic Cancer

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Jens Rikardt Andersen · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Cannabinoids are known to increase appetite, but THC components have psychogenic properties too. CBD is the main component in the plant, and have only minimal psychogenic effects. The aim was to test the appetite stimulating effects of CBD in patients with pancreatic cancer in palliative treatment.

Detailed description

Randomization of consecutive patients who wanted to participate to a daily dose of CBD or not as a supplement to the standard treatment.

Conditions

• Neoplasms Pancreatic
• Cachexia; Cancer
• Cannabis
• Appetite Loss
• Palliative Medicine
• Morbidity
• Mortality

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	THC and CBD Mixture	Individually titrated doses on daily basis

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-10-06
• Primary completion: 2018-05-06
• Completion: 2018-10-06
• First posted: 2017-08-10
• Last updated: 2023-12-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark