While growing up, I remember one of my uncles dying of an unknown disease. He had to be moved from his domiciled town to our house in another city, about hundreds of miles apart. He spent days moving to and fro the government teaching hospital in our village - one of the best hospitals in the entire country. A huge amount of money was spent on tests and drugs trying to find solutions. Ultimately, he gave up the ghost without a confirmatory diagnosis of the actual problem with his body.
Some years after came the advancements in medicine which made it easier to diagnose cancer. My aunt developed breast cancer. Even though the illness was concealed by her immediate family until it became too late, I doubt medical intervention could have saved her. Despite all the research and development in medicine, the chances of surviving cancers today remain slim, and it become even slimmer if there is no huge money stashed somewhere for necessary management treatment.
Why did I start with the story of my uncle who died without diagnosis? Because thinking about it now, I strongly suspect he died of a form of cancer.
Despite all the billions of dollars being spent on cancer research, the cure to the dreadful disease seems elusive to the science world - or not. Why did I say that? There has been numerous anecdotal evidence of cancer being cured by a combination of ivermectin and fenbendazole - stage 4 cancer to be precise. As a layman, one would be wondering why the entire medical world is not all over this combination for clinical trials. I presume many cancer patients would willingly want to participate in these trials. What else is there to lose anyway?
The most recent anecdotal claim of stage 4 cancer being cured by a combination of ivermectin and fenbendazole came from a popular Hollywood figure, Mel Gibson. According to him, not one, two, or three, but four of his friends were cured of stage 4 cancer using this combination. The 69-year-old veteran left so many people shocked with his claim while on the latest episode of the Joe Rogan Experience.
The claim that ivermectin may work as an anti-tumor agent is entirely not new and its effectiveness as a potential anticancer drug has been researched in the past, albeit poorly. The same thing goes for fenbendazole. One would wonder why this is so, for a disease the entire world should go sleepless for in order to find a cure.
The truth is that it is not that medical researchers are oblivious to this claim. However, they have spent more time calling for caution against the usage of these drugs than they have spent researching the claim. The general feeling is that the powers that be within the industry may not want alternatives to the existing cancer management drugs, especially those that provide outright cures. From the perspective of profit, managing a disease brings more profit for pharms than providing an outright cure.
We can call that a conspiracy theory though - or not.
This also reminds me of the brouhaha about quinine's potential to cure COVID-19 back then at the peak of the pandemic. Yes, many publications were made cautioning the public about the claim. However, even till today, there is this belief that the drug effectively works against the virus and this is what many people take whenever they catch the virus.
Currently, I don't know of anyone close to me who's suffering from any form of cancer. If there are, I don't think I would hesitate for them to try out the ivermectin/fenbendazole combination, especially for cancers with lower chances of survival. Both drugs appear to be available in the market as antiparasitic drugs. At least, I've seen fenbendazole being recommended as a deworming drug while I was working as a retail pharmacy technician.
Thank you all for reading.