Transcript · English → Indonesian
Discussion on Ivermectin and Cancer Claims
Belakangan ini ivermektin kembali disorot, dan dalam beberapa bulan terakhir,
terutama muncul klaim tak akurat atau berlebihan tentang khasiat obat ini
untuk mengobati kanker.
Aku punya tiga teman, ketiganya mengidap kanker stadium empat.
Ketiganya saat ini sudah tidak mengidap kanker sama sekali.
Dan hal ini terjadi ketika sejumlah anggota legislatif di berbagai
negara bagian
berusaha mempermudah akses obat ini bagi lebih banyak orang.
Ivermektin sudah ada sejak lama.
Dua ilmuwan yang turut mengerjakan penelitian tentang khasiat
antiparasitnya memenangkan Hadiah Nobel pada 2015.
Namun, obat ini menjadi sangat populer selama pandemi
ketika orang-orang melihat penelitian paling awal ini dan mengira
mungkin obat ini bisa bermanfaat untuk mengobati COVID.
Namun, pada tahun-tahun setelahnya, ada sejumlah penelitian
yang menunjukkan bahwa sebenarnya,
obat tersebut tidak efektif melawan COVID.
Food and Drug Administration telah menyetujui ivermectin untuk mengatasi
beberapa infeksi
parasit, dan juga disetujui untuk mengobati
kondisi kulit seperti rosasea.
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Original transcript (English)
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.
