A dad who was given 12 months to live is almost cancer-free after taking cannabis oils three times a day.
Luke Goodwin, 34, said he feels as “right as rain” when he takes the oils alongside his chemotherapy treatment.
He was diagnosed with stage 4 leiomyosarcoma after suffering a stitch in his stomach last August.
Leiomyosarcoma is a rare cancer that grows in the smooth muscles of the body's organs and affects one-in-3,000 people.
Doctors initially thought Luke had gall stones but tests found a 68mm tumour on his liver as well as shadows in his lungs.
The lorry driver, from Grimsby, Lincs., started an aggressive course of chemotherapy but was warned he may only have 12 months to live.
Luke researched other treatments online and began taking cannabis oils containing CBD, THC and HHC three times a day.
He says he was amazed by the results, which gave him the energy to carry on with his normal life.
Meanwhile, doctors revealed the tumours had shrank enough for them to predict he may be cancer free in a matter of months.
The dad-of-two said: "I have been using CBD, THC and HHC as well as chemotherapy.
"I feel like the oils on the CBD and the THC are doing more than the chemo.
"I have the oils three times a day. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Alongside that I do other oils.
“I find it takes the pain away. It’s working, it’s natural. Some people call it drugs, I call medication.
"I'm not saying the chemo doesn’t work but with the oils it helps.
"It's strong stuff, it helps. It can make you feel right as rain. The chemo is brutal but it does help.
"From diagnosis I was on the chemo and the oils almost instantly, I can’t say which is which. It could be them both working together.
"The chemo is almost worse than the cancer. When you’re at your weakest, you need to be your strongest."
Luke first noticed something was wrong when he suffered painful stomach cramps while driving wife Becky to work last summer.
He said: "I was driving Becky to work one morning as I always do and I felt a stitch above my right-hand side.
“In ten minutes it had gone from a stitch to a stabbing pain, I got my mum out and called an ambulance.
"They said an ambulance would be eight hours so my mum had to take me to hospital.
"I saw my doctors and they initially put it down to kidney or gall stones and they arranged an ultrasound scan.
"They called me and said it looked suspicious and that we need to do a biopsy.
"My doctor said that it was 68mm tumour, and a very rare and very aggressive cancer.
“It had spread to my lungs in lumps around 9mm and it was in my lymph nodes too.
"They told me it was incurable, terminal and I had just 12 months to live.
“I was sat there with my mum and dad, the doctor was saying there was a lot of disease in my body.
"I almost blacked out for the first time. It was pretty much like a smack in the face.
"From there I had to wait a few weeks to get the chemo up and running.
“It was one of the strongest chemo's, they call it the red devil, it’s nasty stuff.
"I woke up the next morning I was fine. But come day six it would just wipe me out, I was throwing up.
“It was a horrible, evil thing. I cannot put it into words how bad that was. I had three chemo sessions every three week.”
In January this year, after months of gruelling chemotherapy, doctors told Luke the biggest tumour had shrank to 43mm.
He was told the tumour was now “stable” and therefore did not need any more chemotherapy treatment.
Luke added: "The scan on April 4 showed it remained stable and even possibly shrunk.
“I haven’t had chemo since January 24, so it could be the oils doing it.
"They won’t put me on chemo unless there’s any sign of growth.
"I know for a fact for me personally the oils are helping for my pains.
“I can run, drive about, do press ups. What stage 4 cancer patient rips bathrooms out and fixes his car?
"I can’t say I'm going to beat it but I feel like I’ve got a great chance.”
