| Literature DB >> 29063814 |
Paula Province Warren1, E Martina Bebin1, L Burt Nabors1, Jerzy P Szaflarski1.
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Epilepsy, commonly encountered by patients with brain tumors, is often refractory to standard therapies. Our aim was to examine the safety and efficacy of pharmaceutical grade cannabidiol (CBD; Epidiolex; Greenwich Biosciences) in those patients with epilepsy with concomitant tumors enrolled in The University of Alabama at Birmingham CBD Program (NCT02700412 and NCT02695537). Of the three patients with refractory seizures and a history of a primary brain tumor, two had improvement in seizure frequency and all three had improvement in seizure severity. These pilot results suggest that CBD should be further studied for the treatment of brain tumor-related epilepsy.Entities:
Keywords: Brain tumor; CBD; cannabidiol; epilepsy; tumoral epilepsy
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Year: 2017 PMID: 29063814 DOI: 10.1080/13554794.2017.1391294
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurocase ISSN: 1355-4794 Impact factor: 0.881