A video viewed millions of times in posts on Facebook, TikTok and Telegram claims that rubbing hydrogen peroxide solution on your skin can treat cancer. The posts circulated online in various languages, from English to Malaysian and Croatian. Medical experts and cancer organisations say there is no evidence to support the claim and warn that rubbing hydrogen peroxide on one's skin can cause irritation, blisters or burns.

The one-minute, 56-second video was shared on Facebook here by a Malaysia-based user on June 29, 2022.

"Hydrogen peroxide can treat cancer," reads the Malaysia-language text superimposed on the video.

The post's Malaysian-language caption translates to English in part as: "Hydrogen peroxide can treat cancer. Just by rubbing one or two times per day on the surface of the skin."

The video was shared alongside a similar claim in Malaysia on messaging app Telegram here, here and here, where it has garnered more than 4,900 views.

The footage has been watched more than 6.5 million times after it circulated with a similar claim in English on TikTok and in Croatian on Facebook.

The video in the misleading posts is a segment of a nearly three-hour-long lecture that Charlotte Gerson, daughter of German-born American physician Max Gerson, gave at the College of Naturopathic Medicine in London in 2003 .

In the 1920s, Max Gerson developed what he called “Gerson Therapy” -- a controversial treatment for cancer and other diseases. Scientists have found no evidence that...

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