父亲的病情已经进入快速进展的阶段，分别的日子已经越来越近了。人在绝望的情况下，再理性的人也会转向神秘和超自然主义。比如，我就试试念据说对治病颇有效果的《地藏经》，还别说，念了之后，当晚刷油管，在一个视频的评论里看到一个人说他用一种叫fenben的药物就控制住了他母亲的肿瘤，没有经历昂贵且痛苦的化疗。这fenben到底是什么灵丹妙药？搜索了一下仿佛发现了一个兔子洞，原来fenben全名叫芬苯达唑，是一种给动物用的打寄生虫的药。一名被诊断为小细胞肺癌晚期的美国人Joe，服用它竟然治好了癌症，或者用专业术语说叫CR（完全缓解），也就是从影像学上找不到肿瘤了。然后他在脸书上撰写了博客向其他人介绍这种抗癌药物。并且收集了几十例同样服用芬苯达唑使癌症达到治愈水平的案例。
其实癌症可以认为是一种由人体自身细胞变异出来的寄生虫，打虫药能治疗癌症也不是不可能。
我在网上搜索了一下，这个叫芬苯达唑的药，京东、淘宝、拼多多上都有售。价格才20来块钱一瓶。整件事情似乎有些too good to be true.（太好了，以至于不太可能是真的），当时已经皈依神秘主义的我，仿佛把这当成了地藏菩萨给我的启示，准备在网上下单，死马当活马医试试。当然芬苯达唑是动物用的药，我选的是人用的打虫药，有着相同原理，和相似分子式的阿苯达唑。
不过最终我还是冷静了下来，仔细研究了一下整件事的来龙去脉，发现Joe的事2017年发生的，在2019年的时候透过网络传播到了韩国，在当时在癌症患者群中引发一阵狂热，导致兽医店里的芬苯达唑脱销。现在中文互联网上还流传有韩国版的抗癌药方案，特点是比Joe的原版剂量大很多。这件引起轰动的事件在当年引起了很多媒体的报道，最终有一位韩国的演艺名人，因为患有肺癌，公开声称会使用芬苯方案治疗，但是一段时间后宣称没有效果，并停止使用芬苯。最终他因癌症去世。打虫药治疗癌症的热度才从韩国消退。
而这件事传入国内则是2020年左右。从那时开始也有国内的癌症患者使用芬苯方案。目前能够搜索到的相关文章都是在那个时间。有效的案例很少，个位数。近年来关于打虫药芬苯达唑治疗癌症的信息就几乎没有了。
再看看主流科学界的观点，就是打虫药在实验室里，和实验小白鼠模型上确实有抗癌功效。但也没到神奇的地步。而对人体的作用则是没有科学实验的数据支持的。倾向于打虫药治疗癌症是无效的。而从互联网上相关信息的传播时间来看，近年来关于打虫药治疗癌症的信息非常少，似乎也说明大部分尝试的人并没有取得实际效果。
My father's illness has entered a stage of rapid progress, and the day of separation has been drawing near. In desperate situations, even rational people turn to mysticism and supernaturalism. For example, I tried to read the Earth Hide Sutra, which is said to be very effective in curing the disease, not to mention, after reading it, I watched YouTube that night and saw in the comments of a video a man said that he had controlled his mother's tumor with a drug called fenben, without going through expensive and painful chemotherapy. What exactly is this fenben elixir? A search turned up a rabbit hole, and fenben, whose full name is Fenbendazole, is a drug used to fight parasites in animals. An American man, Joe, who was diagnosed with advanced small-cell lung cancer, took it and cured the cancer, or CR (complete remission) in the technical term, meaning that the tumor could not be found on the imaging. He then wrote a Facebook blog to tell others about the cancer drug. And collected dozens of cases of people who also took fenbendazole to bring their cancer to a curable level.
In fact, cancer can be considered to be a parasite that is mutated by the body's own cells, and it is not impossible that insecticists can treat cancer.
I searched online, and this drug called Fenbendazole is available on Jingdong, Taobao, and Pinduoduo. It's like 20 bucks a bottle. The whole thing seemed too good to be true. (too good to be true.) At that time, I had converted to mysticism, as if I took it as a revelation from the Bodhisattva Dizang, and prepared to place an order online and try the dead horse as a living horse doctor. Of course fenbendazole is an animal drug, but I'm going to go with albendazole, which has the same principle and a similar molecular formula.
But eventually I calmed down and looked into the whole story, and discovered that Joe's story, which happened in 2017, had spread to Korea via the Internet in 2019, causing a frenzy among cancer patients at the time and causing veterinarians to sell out of Fenbendazole. Now there is also a Korean version of the anti-cancer drug program circulating on the Chinese Internet, which is characterized by a much larger dose than Joe's original. This sensational incident caused a lot of media reports in the year, and eventually a South Korean entertainer, because of lung cancer, publicly claimed that he would use fenbene program treatment, but after a period of time claimed that there was no effect and stopped using Fenbene. He died of cancer. The popularity of anti-insect drugs for cancer treatment has faded from South Korea.
And this matter will be introduced to China around 2020. Since then, fenphenen has also been used by cancer patients in China. The relevant articles that can be searched at present are all at that time. The number of effective cases is small, single digits. In recent years, there has been little information on the treatment of cancer with fenbendazole.
And if you look at the mainstream scientific opinion, it's that insecticides do have anti-cancer effects in the lab and in lab models. But not so much as magical. The effect on humans is not supported by scientific experimental data. It tends to be ineffective to treat cancer with insecticides. From the perspective of the transmission time of relevant information on the Internet, there is very little information about the treatment of cancer with insecticides in recent years, which seems to indicate that most people who try it have not achieved actual results.
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