Rebecca Shatsky: Cancer Misinformation on Social Media Is Killing Patients
Rebecca Shatsky, Breast Cancer Medical Oncologist at UCSD, shared on X:
“Another week on the inpatient oncology service and this time had multiple folks come in in critical condition because they went to a quack and tried to treat their once curable cancer with supplements, tinctures, extreme diets or just ivermectin and fenbendazole.
Cancer patients are dying unnecessarily because of the misinformation epidemic fueled by social media.
Especially the young ones who are most susceptible to this social media ‘wellness influencer‘ crap. It’s so sad.
I’ve never seen so many fungating breast masses that broke through the skin and are bleeding and infected wounds because their cancer quack told them the massive tumor growth was “a good thing” and that it was just “expressing its toxins”. No!!! That is not a thing! That’s untreated breast cancer trying to kill you because you let it sit there.
When you don’t treat a primary breast tumor with real medicine it will grow and break through the skin above it and eat into the muscles and eventually lung behind it and bleed, it will also spread to the bones, the liver, the lungs and the brain.”
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