Skin health riskĭermatologists told AFP that rubbing hydrogen peroxide on a person's skin could be harmful. "It does not appear from a search of our resources that the NCI maintains any information supporting this claim," its spokesperson told AFP. The US National Cancer Institute (NCI), a leading US agency for cancer research, said that it also found no evidence for the claim. "Some studies have even shown that hydrogen peroxide could enable cancer to flourish," Patel told AFP.įor example, this study explains that "several independent lines of evidence" suggest that the hydrogen peroxide produced by certain cells may function as the "fertiliser" in the facilitation of tumor growth and metastasis, by driving accelerated aging, DNA damage, inflammation and cancer metabolism.Įlise Bonvin, a molecular biology and oncology researcher in Brussels, also told AFP that "although H2O2 has been used for keratose (not cancer), it is not proven by the scientific to my knowledge that H2O2 could be a therapy for cance r."
In fact, high levels of hydrogen peroxide on the skin can cause burning or blistering, and ingesting it can be even more dangerous," said Dr Jyoti Patel, Chicago-based oncologist and editor-in-chief of the website. “Although low concentrations of hydrogen peroxide can be used to disinfect skin, there is no role for its use in treating cancer. Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a chemical light blue substance, colourless in a diluted form, with a slightly sharp odor. The video shared on Facebook starts from the two-hour, 41-minute and 46-second mark of the longer footage. Scientists have found no evidence that the treatment works, as stated here and here. In the 1920s, Max Gerson developed what he called “Gerson Therapy” - a controversial treatment for cancer and other diseases. The video in the misleading posts is a segment of a nearly three-hour-long lecture that Charlotte Gerson, daughter of German-born American physician Max Gerson, gave at the College of Naturopathic Medicine in London in 2003. The footage has been watched more than 6.5 million times after it circulated with a similar claim in English on TikTok and in Croatian on Facebook. The video was shared alongside a similar claim in Malaysia on messaging app Telegram here, here and here, where it has garnered more than 4,900 views.
Screenshot of the misleading post, captured on August 11, 2022
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