Can Chlorine Cause Cancer?
Are you aware that municipalities have, since the late 19th
Century, been adding chlorine to municipal drinking water as a disinfectant. Today, that same chlorine is
still added to the water we drink, cook with, wash our clothes with, and bathe in. Chlorine is an effective
disinfectant, killing over 99% of the bacteria found in our water; Unfortunately, chlorine is also a
deadly poison, affecting us just as it affects
bacteria.
Chlorine and Cancer
Dr. Robert Carlson, a researcher whose work has been sponsored by the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), stated some years ago that, “chlorine is the greatest crippler and killer of modern
times.” Strong words regarding a substance that we drink and bathe in regularly, usually
without a thought.
Recent medical studies have identified four types of cancer that can be positively
linked to chlorine exposure from our drinking/tap water:
• Bladder
cancer
• Rectal cancer
• Colon cancer
• Breast cancer
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"Cancer risk among people
using chlorinated water is as much as 93% higher than among those whose water does not contain
chlorine."
- According to the U.S. Council of Environmental
Quality,
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An overwhelming incidence of these malignancies has been found to be a result of
prolonged exposure to the low levels of chlorine in our municipal water systems. The evidence is conclusive, and
alarming; if we drink it, if we bathe or shower in it, our unfiltered tap water is harming us - even killing
us.
Bladder, Rectal and Colon Cancer and Chlorine
As far back as 2007, The London Daily Mail stated in an article regarding the
alarming increase of cases of bladder cancer in Great Britain, that researchers and clinicians had found that
“those who bathe regularly in areas (of Britain) with a high concentration of chlorine in the water were 83% more
likely to develop tumors (in the bladder) than those who bathe in areas with lower levels of chlorine.” The report
went on to state, that those who drink water with higher levels of chlorine “are 35 % more likely to get bladder
cancer” than those who drank the water in areas with lower levels of chlorine.
Obviously, if we drink a lot of chlorinated tap water, this water circulates
through the bladder to the colon and the rectum. The harmful by-products introduced into the body by chlorine
reactants are eventually deposited in large amounts within these organs. These deposits are now prime suspects in
the increasing incidents of malignancies noted in both organs.
Breast Cancer and Chlorine
Breast cancer is the most recent malignancy that has been blamed on drinking
unfiltered, chlorinated water. A buildup of dangerous chlorine compounds in the breast tissue is, again, the
primary culprit. A study undertaken in Hartford, Connecticut found a 50 % to 60 % higher level of chlorine
byproducts (organochlorines) in women who suffered from breast cancer than in women who did not.
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"One common factor among women with breast cancer is that they all have
50-60% higher levels of these chlorination byproducts (THMs) in their fat tissue than women without
breast cancer..."
- According to BreastCancerFund.org
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The Real Killers: THMs and Free
Radicals
Free radicals, produced by trihalomethanes (THMs), are increasingly blamed for the
malignancies that have been a result of exposure to chlorinated water. These harmful chemicals and reactants are a
result of the combining of chlorine with other organic and inorganic chemicals in our water to form such nasty
elements as chlorinated organic chemicals, chlorine salts, and, in the case of the oxidation of chlorine,
hypochlorous acid.
THMs are a result of the reaction of chlorine with decaying organic matter in our
water supply, a reaction magnified by their low vaporization temperature. Thus, THMs are especially reactant in
a hot shower. These THMs are known to initiate the production of free radicals that have been proven to cause
damaging changes in the molecular structure of our body’s tissue cells. Free radicals have long been known as
carcinogens, thus THMs, besides causing a number of other heart, vascular, respiratory, and skin conditions, are
now increasingly linked to cancer.
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"Filtering the water you shower in is as
important or more so than filtering drinking water..."
- Dr. Julian
Whitaker
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Water Filters and Shower Filters Work!
The EPA has maintained for some time that ingestion, or drinking unfiltered tap
water is more damaging than showering with unfiltered water. However, chlorine vaporizes much more quickly than
does the water in our hot showers, resulting in a form of chlorine gas that contains THMs. These THMs are
effectively and quickly absorbed into the skin through our heat-enlarged pores. The fact that THMs are proven
health risks would indicate that water filters on both the drinking-water tap, and the shower head are a sound
idea. Tap water filters and shower water filters have been
proven effective at removing chlorine and its resultant harmful byproducts from our water and should be mandatory
in every household.
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dangers chlorine and cancer.

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