Table 4.

Frequency of the main misconceptions about chemotherapy in the Arabic tweets (n=2084).

Misconceptions	n (%)
Falsified and unrealistic side effects about chemotherapy; the main shared tweet was that “a drop of chemotherapy spilled on a healthy man’s skin would severely burn the skin.”	1271 (60.9)
Chemotherapy causes cancer to spread.	282 (13.5)
Chemotherapy has no therapeutic effect on cancers.	214 (10.3)
Claims that there are natural products/preparations (eg, olive oil, Nigella sativa, ginger, almonds, camel milk or urine) or other practices (eg, blood cupping, carbohydrate restriction), which are more effective than chemotherapy for treating cancers	170 (8.2)
Chemotherapy is prescribed so that pharmaceutical companies and physicians can make huge profits.	67 (3.2)
Claims about some pharmaceutical products (eg, vitamin B17, antibiotics, vitamin C) being more effective than chemotherapy for treating cancers	47 (2.3)
Claims that there are few religious practices (eg, Roqya, Zamzam water intake, seclusion in mosque, fasting from dawn to sunset), which are more effective than chemotherapy for treating cancers	33 (1.6)