A dad who was given one year to live may soon be cancer free after taking cannabis oils to supplement conventional treatment.
Doctors have told Luke Goodwin his tumours have shrunk and predict he will soon be free from cancerous growths. The 34-year-old has been taking oils three times a day alongside his chemotherapy treatment for stage 4 leiomyosarcoma, a rare cancer which affects just one-in-3000 people.
Luke's diagnosis came after he suffered a stitch in his stomach last August, and was originally thought to be a more common ailment, reports the Mirror.
Doctors initially thought Luke had gall stones but tests found a tumour on his liver measuring 68mm, along with shadows in his lungs.
Luke was forced to give up his job as a long-distance lorry driver and started a course of chemotherapy - but was warned he may only have 12 months to live.
Not wanting to give in, Luke, from Grimsby, researched other treatments. He then began taking cannabis oils containing CBD, THC and HHC three times a day.
The results left him amazed, and Luke said they have given him the energy to carry on with his normal life despite his prior prognosis.
The good news continued, when doctors revealed he may be cancer free in a matter of months due to the tumours shrinking.
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."
Painful stomach cramps were the first symptoms Luke experienced, during a car journey with wife Becky 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 chemos, 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.”
Following months of gruelling chemotherapy, doctors told Luke in January this year, that the largest of his tumours had shrank to 43mm. Medics said the tumour was now "stable" and because of that, Luke did not need any more chemotherapy.
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.”
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