{"id":11409,"date":"2026-02-11T12:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11409"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:19:18","slug":"national-cancer-institute-studying-ivermectins-ability-to-kill-cancer-cells-alarming-career-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/02\/11\/national-cancer-institute-studying-ivermectins-ability-to-kill-cancer-cells-alarming-career-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"National Cancer Institute studying ivermectin\u2019s \u2018ability to kill cancer cells,\u2019 alarming career scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/02\/10\/ivermectin-for-cancer-national-cancer-institute-preclinical-study\/\">STAT<\/a> The NCI director didn\u2019t cite new evidence that prompted the agency to look into it. The National Cancer Institute, the federal research agency charged with leading the war against the nation\u2019s second-largest killer, is studying ivermectin as a potential cancer treatment, according to its top official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are enough reports of it, enough interest in it, that we actually did \u2014 ivermectin, in particular \u2014 did engage in sort of a better preclinical study of its properties and its ability to kill cancer cells,\u201d said Anthony Letai,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/22\/national-cancer-institute-director-anthony-letai-q-and-a\/\">a physician the Trump administration<\/a>\u00a0appointed as NCI director in September. Letai did not cite new evidence that might have prompted the institute to research the effectiveness of the antiparasitic drug against cancer. The drug, largely used to treat people or animals for infections caused by parasites, is a popular dewormer for horses.<br><\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"S MldGBLSc  QbAkU \">S MldGBLSc  QbAkU <\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT The NCI director didn\u2019t cite new evidence that prompted the agency to look into it. The National Cancer Institute, the federal research agency charged with leading the war against the nation\u2019s second-largest killer, is studying ivermectin as a potential cancer treatment, according to its top official. \u201cThere are enough reports of it, enough interest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11410,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11409\/revisions\/11410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}