By this time most of you are aware that for quite a while I have been a big fan of Ivermectin for Covid … even before I took it for Covid.
I am also a lover of music, and after I listened to an interview with oncology surgeon, Dr. Kathleen Ruddy on Epoch’s American Thought Leaders, I was reminded of the song, Sounds of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel.
“Hello darkness, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence”
The interview with Dr. Ruddy was about the potential use of my old friend, Ivermectin in treating cancer. If you have thirty minutes or so to spare, I would strongly recommend listening to this interview.
In the interview Dr. Ruddy describes what happened to three separate cancer patients who began, almost serendipitously, to take Ivermectin. These three patients each had advanced cancer. One prostate cancer; one esophageal cancer; one pelvic cancer. While I am not suggesting that the three remarkable documented recoveries in each of these patients should suddenly change the present treatment for cancer, I am suggesting that the use of Ivermectin might indeed find a place in the treatment of various cancers.
I can hear many of you saying that perhaps a study could be done using Ivermectin as an adjunct to the other present accepted different modes of cancer treatment.
To put things into perspective, no pharmaceutical company is going to be interested in studying a drug that literally costs about ten cents per tablet, and so a randomized controlled trial will never be possible.
After some encouragement from Dr. Ruddy an observational multi-centered study has been started using ivermectin and historical controls. FYI: an observational study is one like the well known Framingham Study, the results of which are ongoing. As pointed out by Dr. Ruddy many cancer patients do not live long enough for comparisons after five years of Ivermectin versus no Ivermectin, and thus an observational study with historical controls is the only feasible way to examine for results.
Likewise after being used extensively in Africa for river blindness Ivermectin has a stellar safety record.
I know that if I develop metastatic cancer, I will go back and listen to Simon and Garfunkel’s Sound of Silence:
“Hello Ivermectin, my old fiend!
I’ve came to talk with you again”
5/15./24