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Victoria Forster
Postdoctoral Fellow, The Hospital for Sick Children
Expertise: Pediatric cancers, Effects of chemotherapy
Details:
Qualifying publication(s): see criteria
ARTICLES REVIEWED
Daily Mail article misleads with clickbait headline claiming cowpox-derived virus will “kill every type of cancer”
in Daily Mail, by Zoe Zaczek
— 20 Nov 2019
"This article substantially overhypes early pre-clinical work with a viral therapy that has not yet been tested in even the earliest stages of human clinical trials. The headline i..
CLAIMS REVIEWED
Insufficient clinical evidence demonstrating that turmeric cures or prevents cancer
CLAIM
“turmeric prevents cancer”
SOURCE: Anonymous, Natural Solutions Magazine
Published: 20 Apr 2022
VERDICT
Claims of curcumin cancer cure are premature and unsubstantiated
CLAIM
Science just confirmed eating turmeric every day could ‘reverse cancer’
SOURCE: Anonymous, Get Holistic Health, Natural News
Published: 17 Jun 2019
VERDICT