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Carlos Santana Shares Cure For Cancer

2:40 PM EDT on August 27, 2026

Sometimes Carlos Santana makes regrettable comments, like when he dissed Beyoncé and then apologized in 2017. Well, he may have to apologize for this. At Red Rocks on Monday (Aug. 24), the Santana frontman shared an extremely dubious "cure" for cancer.

"If you wanna make sure that in your life you never have cancer, it's important that you remember this: Grievances causes cancer," he told the audience. "So it's important that you let it go and forgive. Let go of that shit. Let it go. And you will be clean. I promise you. You will be clean. Someone, a specialist on cancer, he said he never met anyone that had cancer that didn't have grievances."

Fans are not happy about this, calling the perspective a form of victim-blaming. Do not take medical advice from Carlos Santana. Watch the moment below.

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