It all depends. I know it was fashionable for a while on the left to shit on ivermectin as a horse dewormer but what's missed by such empty rhetoric is that many substances have many purposes and uses. Both of these medications are very effective at treating certain forms of cancer and there are in fact people who went into complete remission from even stage 4 after using these medications for just a few months(after they were given no chances on standard chemo/radiation treatments).
There's now ongoing research of these substances for cancer treatment. Such research is still in the relatively early stages but there's clear initial evidence it works.
I had a close friend who didn't survive his first chemo treatment at just 44. He was initially given 2 years to live with stage 4 colorectal cancer and he died in just 2 months last year. I truly wish he went the ivermectin and fenbendazole route because I think he'd still be alive. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
To summarize this is not quackery. There are in fact well established mechanisms via which these medications work to kill off cancer.
Diet containing the anthelminthic fenbendazole is used often to treat rodent pinworm infections because it is easy to use and has few reported adverse effects on research. However, during fenbendazole treatment at our institution, an established ...
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Fenbendazole is a benzimidazole anthelmintic agent commonly used to treat animal parasitic infections. In humans, other benzimidazoles, such as mebendazole and albendazole, are used as antiparasitic agents. Since fenbendazole is not currently approved by the FDA or EMA, its pharmacokinetics and...
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Benzimidazole anthelmintic agents have been recently repurposed to overcome cancers resistant to conventional therapies. To evaluate the anti-cancer effects of benzimidazole on resistant cells, various cell death pathways were investigated in ...
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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer worldwide and still lacks effective therapy. Ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug, has been shown to possess anti-inflammation, anti-virus, and antitumor properties. However, whether ivermectin ...
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Colon cancer (CC) is a common form of cancer worldwide. According to growing incidence of cancer and little information about the possible protective role of Ivermectin (IVM) on colon cancer, this study aimed to investigate the chemoprotective role ...
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Background/Aim: Recent studies have shown that ivermectin, developed as an anti-parasitic drug, has efficacy against several cancer types. Methionine restriction, including the use of recombinant methioninase (rMETase), has been developed to target methionine addiction, a fundamental hallmark of...
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