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A small team monitors social media and news for spreading cancer falsehoods and publishes clear, sourced rebuttals within two days, before the claim becomes established.
Public health agencies built infodemic units during COVID-19 but cancer has no equivalent. The proposal is a standing unit (hosted by a national cancer institute or charity) using social listening to detect fast-growing false claims about cancer causes, cures and treatments, producing plain rebuttals with primary sources within 48 hours, and distributing them through clinician networks, platforms and patient organisations. Impact is measured through claim spread trajectories and clinic reports.
Shares Unproven diet claims (alkaline, juice, 'anti-cancer' diets), Alternative medicine used instead of standard treatment, Misinformation and unproven therapies.
Shares Ask about diet at diagnosis, and prebunk the myths before the internet does, Unproven diet claims (alkaline, juice, 'anti-cancer' diets), Misinformation and unproven therapies.
Shares Unproven diet claims (alkaline, juice, 'anti-cancer' diets), Alternative medicine used instead of standard treatment, Misinformation and unproven therapies.
Shares Fenbendazole, ivermectin and other internet 'repurposed cures', Misinformation and unproven therapies.
Shares Unproven diet claims (alkaline, juice, 'anti-cancer' diets), Alternative medicine used instead of standard treatment, Misinformation and unproven therapies.
Shares Fenbendazole, ivermectin and other internet 'repurposed cures', Misinformation and unproven therapies.
Shares Fenbendazole, ivermectin and other internet 'repurposed cures', Misinformation and unproven therapies.
Shares Fenbendazole, ivermectin and other internet 'repurposed cures', Misinformation and unproven therapies.