In reality, skin cancer is very much like other cancer, their are many different types of skin cancer. I would agree, the cream may be effective against certain forms, but probably not nearly every form.
I had a growth on my nose that looked like a wart from the time I was a teenager, I was always told it was harmless. After about 3 weeks on our boat we had a dermatology appointment and my wife pointed out to the dermatologist that the growth looked pink, he agreed, but didn't think it was anything, but took a small sample. About a week later I got a call indicating it was sebaceous carcinoma, told that it could be very serious, and was given the name of a Mose surgeon to contact. When the surgeon couldn't schedule me for a few weeks, my dermatologist intervened and I spent the better part of two days in surgery to not only get the tumor, but get clear margins beyond the tumor.
That led me to an appointment with an Oncologist, who after a body scan with contrast found a tumor in the kidney. That surgery and it's recovery went fine and I was seeing the oncologist a couple times a year, and had seen him perhaps two months before my blood tests went crazy, and I wound up with ALL, but initially they thought it was AML, I was hours from my first chemo treatment when my treatment was totally changed.
I'm only bringing this up because until you become personally involved with the disease, you don't realize how many variations of the disease their are. I strongly believe that ultimately many forms of cancer will be cured with meds that are personalized to the specific cancer. While it would be great if our cannabis cream cured many forms of skin cancers, I just doubt that will be the case. We might however find that it has benefits that work with other drugs to obtain cures, or at least sustained remissions.
I frankly am taking the sort of drug that I believe big Pharma loves because it achieves remissions that are sustained indefinitely, but it's known that even after years of being in molecular remission, i.e. they cannot find a single cancerous cell, the cancer is known to reoccur much more frequently if the drug is removed, than if it isn't. Perhaps some day they'll really cure many forms of cancer, but for now, even after five years, cancers have reoccurred.
I know a couple people with MM in remission. It's my understanding that they will be monitored roughly quarterly for the rest of their lives, and while they're not on regular chemo, they still do get certain treatment that takes the better part of a day at least annually that wouldn't be necessary if they didn't have the MM.
I suspect that once the cream and sublingual tablet are available, people with a variety of diseases will include, one, or even both for their conditions, in addition to the drugs they're already taking. Anecdotal evidence of efficacy will be discussed, but that's not really proof of efficacy. I would hope that no one with a life threatening condition completely abandons conventional medicine, however, many skin conditions like acne could be treated with the cream alone, and news that it worked could be big. With sufficient anecdotal evidence, I believe that regular medical doctors will consider recommending the treatment to their patients. The key is establishing a way for patients to report their experience with the drugs.
Gary
News 
Market Data 
Discover 
