Medical Marijuana Legalized in Pennsylvania. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HARRISBURG â Pennsylvania is now the 24th state in the country to offer medical marijuana. Governor Wolf signed the bill into law Sunday afternoon at a ceremony in the Capitol rotunda surrounded by advocates and lawmakers.
Many people wonder whether thereâs a chance that they could get Alzheimerâs disease from chemotherapy. There is no evidence of this happening in any direct sense. Chemotherapy does not appear to cause the same biochemical changes in the brain that are found in Alzheimerâs disease.
Chemotherapy medicines interfere with the rapidly growing cells of the body. These cells can include those related to hair, skin, fingernails or the stomach lining. This is why chemotherapy can cause temporary side effects. These include mouth sores, upset stomach, hair loss or skin rashes. Side effects usually improve as the normal (or non-cancer) tissues repair themselves. Not all chemotherapy medicines have the same late effects.