Drugs used for deworming and scabies are being sold as cancer treatments, according to an investigation, raising concerns about vulnerable patients being offered products with claims that they can affect tumours.
The case highlighted in the supplied material involved a terminally ill man who was offered the drugs by a stair lift salesman. The salesman claimed the products could shrink tumours.
The drugs were described as dewormer and scabies medicines. The supplied material does not name the specific medicines, identify the people involved, or provide details of where or when the offer took place.
The central concern is that products not presented in the material as approved cancer treatments were being marketed to a person with terminal illness using claims about tumour shrinkage. The source material does not include evidence supporting those claims, nor does it provide any official medical response.
No further details were supplied about regulatory action, police involvement, medical advice given to the patient, or whether the salesman or any associated business responded to the findings. The latest position set out in the material is that the drugs were being sold as cancer treatments and that at least one terminally ill man was offered them with claims they could shrink tumours.
