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...

Being exposed to arsenic might increase your chances of getting cancer or other health problems, based on studies in people and animals.

Drinking water with too much arsenic over a long time is linked to higher chances of getting certain cancers, like skin, bladder, and lung cancer.

If people drink water with too much arsenic in it over a long time, it could lead to serious health problems like heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and rare conditions like Blackfoot disease.

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.