article_snippet.sent: Cannabis can kill cancer cells and helps shrink one of the most serious types of brain tumour, new advice reveals .
article_snippet.sent: Cannabis can kill cancer cells and shrink one of the most serious types of brain tumours, new advice reveals.
article_snippet.sent: The National Institute on Drug Abuse in the US has admitted, in The National Institute on Drug Abuse in the US revised publication on marijuana, that the drug offers benefits to some cancer patients.
article_snippet.sent: The report states: 'Recent animal studies have shown that marijuana extracts may help kill certain cancer cells and reduce the size of others. '
article_snippet.sent: Evidence from one animal study suggests that extracts from whole-plant marijuana can slow the growth of cancer cells from one of the most serious types of brain tumours. '
article_snippet.sent: Research in mice showed that these extracts, when used with radiation, increased the cancer-killing effects of the radiation.'
article_snippet.sent: The National Institute on Drug Abuse in the US has admitted, in The National Institute on Drug Abuse in the US revised publication on marijuana, that the drug offers benefits to some cancer patients, including those suffering some brain tumours, pictured .
highlights_snippet.sent: National Institute on Drug Abuse admits cannabis has medicinal benefits .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: US guidance states drug can help kill some cancer cells and shrink others .
  