Discussion on Ivermectin and Cancer Claims

There's been a renewed focus on ivermectin lately, and in recent months, there's

especially been some inaccurate or exaggerated claims around what the drug

can do for cancer.

I have three friends, all three of them had stage four cancer.

All three of them don't have cancer right now at all.

And this comes at a time when a number of legislators across

different

states are trying to make the drug more accessible to more people.

Ivermectin has been around for a while.

Two of the scientists who helped work on the research around its

anti-parasitic properties won the Nobel Prize in 2015.

But the drug became almost a household name during the pandemic

when people looked at this really early preliminary research and thought

maybe it could be helpful to treat COVID.

But in the years since, there have been a number of studies

showing that actually,

the drug is not effective against COVID.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved ivermectin to treat some

parasitic

infections, and it's also approved to treat skin

conditions like rosacea.