Liz O’Riordan: I talk about the dangerous cancer diet misinformation that’s flooding social media at the moment

Liz O’Riordan shared a post on X/Twitter:

“In today’s The Lancet David Robert Grimes and I talk about the dangerous cancer diet misinformation that’s flooding social media at the moment. Do you know how many cancer diet books are out there? Read it here. ”

Source: Liz O’Riordan/Twitter

Liz O’Riordan is a breast surgeon, motivational speaker, writer, cancer patient, and advocate from the UK, who blogs about her experiences as a doctor and patient. She has written articles for the Huffington Post, Macmillan, The Pool, and Grazia. Her TEDx talk is called ‘Jar of Joy’. She is the co-author of the book “The Complete Guide to Breast Cancer” (2018), and recently released her memoir “Under the Knife” (2023). In 2016 Dr. O’Riordan was nominated for the “Woman of the Year” award. In 2017, the UK Blog Awards highly commended her for her blog “Breast Surgeon with Breast Cancer”. In the same year, she was nominated as one of Medscape’s best physicians of the year.