My daughter takes albuterol for asthma. im being told that albuterol causes lung cancer. is this true.?

Not true: Not true. No reliable study to show the evidence that albuterol causes lung cancer.

No: There are no reputable studies that support this claim.

Smoking: Smoking causes lung cancer. Albuterol is a rescue medication when wheezing, short of breath. If using it more than 2 days per week, your doctor needs to consider prevention/maintenance meds. The purpose is to avoid attacks and use of albuterol.

Wow! I mean, No!: I've heard a lot of goofy things, but this one takes the cake. Not only can't a molecule like albuterol cause cancer, there isn't even an increased risk of lung cancer in asthmatics that could be mistakenly attributed to albuterol use. Somebody just made this up.

Not likely: Albuterol has been the standard-of-care for asthma for a very long time. That means that literally millions of people have been using this drug for a very long time. If it caused lung cancer, it would be all over the news and would have been pulled from the market years ago. Unfortunately, there is no shortage of folks who spread rumors without serious thought as to their truthfulness.