Tom Hanks has lashed out at “quacks” targeting vulnerable cancer suffers by trying to sell cures that don’t work.
Hanks’ wife Rita Wilson spent 10 months battling breast cancer before getting the all-clear.
Last December, Hanks and Wilson – who have been married for 27 years – received the devastating news that she had invasive lobular carcinoma. Wilson, 58, underwent a bilateral mastectomy and reconstruction. The couple made the decision to go public with her diagnosis to encourage other women to have their breasts checked.
Now, with his wife through the worst of it, Hanks has spoken out against people who peddle stupid treatments that don’t work.
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He told News Limited an “odd kind of backlash” came with their decision to speak openly about Wilson’s cancer battle.
“There’s a predatory philosophy that happens where people find out that you have a certain illness, particularly cancer, and they will try and make money off of you, pushing procedures that might have a degree of science to them, and there are others that are absolute quacks just trying to make money,” Hanks said.