Mykayla Comstock’s Cannabis Oil Story Helps Little Girl with Leukemia Bing Videos
PENDLETON, OR – Just after her 7th birthday in July 2012, Mykayla Comstock was diagnosed with intermediate risk T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a rare and aggressive blood and bone cancer.
“I thought it was just a typical child illness, such as pneumonia,” says Erin Purchase, Mykayla’s mother. “It was an extended cough with fevers. I never dreamed it could be cancer. I was completely shocked and heartbroken when we found out it was cancer; definitely not what I expected at all.”
After ten days of doctor recommended chemotherapy, Mykayla’s parents signed her up for a medical marijuana permit at a clinic in Portland, which at the time, made her the youngest medical marijuana patient in the state.
She started cannabis oil treatment right away and it led to immediate results.
“She was kind of in a dark place before the oil,” Brandon Krenzler, Mykayla’s father and cannabis caregiver. “She was very sick, nauseous and in pain. She was very pale, she didn’t want to get up, she didn’t want to eat, she didn’t want to do anything but lay around an talk to us. When we gave her the oil, she perked up and said ‘I’m hungry and I want to eat!'”
Mykayla doesn’t smoke or vaporize marijuana, she takes about two to three grams of cannabis oil per day in either capsule form or through a number of edibles, even creams and oils.
Her parents point to the alternative treatment as one of the reasons why her cancer is now in remission.
“The federal government classifies cannabis as having no medicinal benefit at all and I’ve seen medicinal benefits with my own eyes,” says Purchase. “It’s not as bad as you once thought. It’s not a bunch of hippies in the back room getting high. We’re treating patient and at the same time, people are using it recreationally safely,” says Krenzler.
Mykayla’s last day for chemotherapy is November 13th, 2014, and her parents plan to slowly wean her off of the cannabis once chemotherapy is over. As far as any advice to other kids starting medical marijuana treatment…
“Don’t be afraid, because it (cannabis) can help you,” says Mykayla.
While marijuana hasn’t been linked to curing cancer, research says it may be possible.
Scientists say studies have shown that cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychoactive chemical in marijuana, can latch on to cancer cells and prevent them from growing and spreading. Other research shows that THC leads to cell apoptosis (programmed cell death), meaning that THC latches onto cancer cells and kills the cells before they can mature
Back in 2012: I followed MyKayla’s Story as she went through treatment on this Facebook page set up by her parents, here.
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Cannabis Oil Pills Helped Child Go into Cancer Remission, Mom Says
An Oregon mother credits cannabis oil pills with child’s cancer remission.
ByABC News
November 26, 2012, 5:58 PM
Nov. 27, 2012 — When 7-year-old Mykayla Comstock was diagnosed with leukemia in July, it was less than three days before her mother filed Oregon medical marijuana paperwork so the child could take lime-flavored capsules filled with cannabis oil.
The decision to give Mykayla the capsules came naturally to Erin Purchase, MyKayla’s mother, who believes marijuana has healing power, but doctors aren’t so sure it’s a good idea.
“The first doctor was not for it at all,” Purchase told ABCNews.com. “She was rude and she told us it was inappropriate. “Basically she blew up at us and told us to transfer to another facility.”
They found a new doctor, who knows that Mykayla takes about a gram of cannabis oil a day — half in the morning and half at night — but he doesn’t talk about it with them.
“This is our daughter,” Purchase, 25, said. “If they don’t agree with our personal choices, we’d rather they not say anything at all.”
It’s legal for a minor to enroll in the Oregon medical marijuana program as long as the child’s parent or legal guardian consents and takes responsibility as a caregiver.
And Mykayla is not alone.
There are currently four other patients enrolled in the Oregon medical marijuana program between the ages of 4 and 9, six between the ages of 10 and 14, and 41 between the ages of 15 and 17, according to the Oregon Public Health Division. Severe pain, nausea, muscle spasms and seizures are among the top conditions cited for medical marijuana use.
Mykayla first started to feel sick in May, when she developed a rash, cough and night sweats. By mid-July, doctors found a mass in her chest and diagnosed her with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia a few days later. The family relocated from Pendleton, Ore. to Portland to be near Randall Children’s Hospital for treatment, which included chemotherapy.
At first, Mykayla wasn’t responding well to her treatment, and doctors said she might need a bone marrow transplant. Then she started taking the cannabis oil pills. her mother said. By early August, Mykayla was in remission and the transplant was no longer necessary.
“I don’t think it’s just a coincidence,” Purchase said. “I credit it with helping — at least helping — her ridding the cancer from her body.”
Before Mykayla was diagnosed, Purchase had read about another young boy with cancer who received cannabis oil for nearly two years because his parents believed it kept him alive so much that they defied doctors’ orders and broke Montana law to give it to him. She said she knew it was what she would do for her children if they ever got sick.
Cash “Cashy” Hyde died Nov. 14 at four years old, but his parents say he was never in any pain because of the oil.
Read more about Cash and his parents.
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Purchase said she, too, uses medical marijuana. She said it has helped with her kidney and liver disease since 2010, adding, “I feel that it saved my life”.
However, Dr. Donna Seger, the executive director of the Tennessee Poison Center and a professor at Vanderbilt University, said cannabis has no effect on liver or kidney function, and it does not cure cancer.
“If it does anything, it decreases immunity,” she said. “It doesn’t fight cancer.”
Dr. Igor Grant, who directs the University of California Center for Medical Cannabis Research in San Diego, at that time said he’s never studied marijuana’s effects on children and it’s not clear how the pills will affect Mykayla’s development if she takes the drugs daily for a period of months or years.
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