The Kyle Massey cancer rumors have got to stop. While the 21-year-old Dancing With the Stars contestant has been traveling in Africa, the rumors were slowly building on Twitter.

On Saturday and Sunday, they reached a crescendo, with multiple tweets going out from dozens if not hundreds of people that said something like: “Zimmerman is free, Cory Monteith is dead, Kyle Massey has cancer, Casey Anthony is pregnant. On a scale of 1-10 how done are you with this day?'
What really burns my toast is that when Kyle Massey posted his recent Instagram photo of his ascent some 14,000 feet up Mount Kilimanjaro, there were people who took the opportunity to spread the Kyle Massey cancer rumor there — instead of congratulating him on his remarkable achievement.

Apparently, it’s somebody’s idea of fun to spread rumors that a healthy 21-year-old man has cancer. I even saw a variation Tweet that it was brain cancer.

C’mon, people. It isn’t cool to just make stuff up out of your elbow.

On Sunday, Kyle Massey’s rep came forward to address the cancer rumors. Here’s the statement published in ET Online:

“This is a very serious disease and he’s upset that someone would make light of such a serious subject. He has been affected personally from the disease as he has had family members who have passed away from cancer.”

Several other sites have published the same statement. So it’s over to you. Want.