{"id":80917,"date":"2026-08-05T03:58:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/undercover-reporter-offered-fenbendazole-and-ivermectin-as-cancer-treatment\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T03:58:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:58:43","slug":"undercover-reporter-offered-fenbendazole-and-ivermectin-as-cancer-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/undercover-reporter-offered-fenbendazole-and-ivermectin-as-cancer-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Undercover reporter offered fenbendazole and ivermectin as cancer treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic drug used to treat conditions like scabies, while fenbendazole is an animal dewormer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC has seen videos and social posts with thousands &#8211; sometimes millions &#8211; of views, with unproven claims that these medicines could help treat cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hollywood actor Mel Gibson claimed on a popular US podcast that the drugs successfully treated three of his friends who had cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Jason started to say that he could get hold of a treatment that wasn&#8217;t available on the NHS, that was known to shrink brain tumours,&#8221; Rebecca said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So I wrote down everything he said about these medicines&#8230;fenbendazole, ivermectin&#8230;I couldn&#8217;t quite believe what he was saying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rebecca said Sarver offered to sell her dad, from Monmouthshire, the medicines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An undercover BBC reporter contacted Sarver posing as someone with a relative who had cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He repeated the same claims, and sent a link to videos making unproven assertions that the drugs were effective against cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I do a lot of research, medical papers, white papers, anything that comes out fresh, I am on it,&#8221; Sarver said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not a doctor, I just passed what I hear on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He went on to supply the BBC with fenbendazole and ivermectin tablets for \u00a3100 which he said would be &#8220;two to three months&#8217; supply&#8221; to treat lung cancer and &#8220;other cancers as well&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said his work selling stair lifts meant he saw &#8220;a lot of ill people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I can&#8217;t help myself, I&#8217;ve got to tell them about it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0m7wvpwjzeo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic drug used to treat conditions like scabies, while fenbendazole is an animal dewormer. The BBC has seen videos and social posts with thousands &#8211; sometimes millions &#8211; of views, with unproven claims that these medicines could help treat cancer. Hollywood actor Mel Gibson claimed on a popular US podcast that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50],"tags":[2519,21355,21356,774,5861,892,21184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80919,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80917\/revisions\/80919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}