Eating certain foods regularly that contain a chemical called inorganic arsenic might raise your chances of getting bladder, lung, and skin cancer. For example, it could lead to thousands of extra cancer cases each year in the U.S.

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Cancer Burden from Dietary Exposure to Inorganic Arsenic in the United States: Risk Assessment and Policy Implications.

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2025 Jun 23

The study looked at the same foods and same health risks as the claim, and it found exactly the same numbers of extra cancer cases, so it supports the claim.

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Cancer Burden from Dietary Exposure to Inorganic Arsenic in the United States: Risk Assessment and Policy Implications.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jfp.2025.100520

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If you eat a lot of rice and wheat and cook with water that has arsenic in it, computer models suggest you might be over 80 times more likely to get cancer than the average person in the U.S.—but this is just a prediction, not something scientists have actually seen happen yet.

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