{"id":206797,"date":"2025-02-19T20:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T02:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/chemical-found-in-us-drinking-water-is-linked-to-15-higher-risk-of-colorectal-cancer-33-for-bladder-cancer"},"modified":"2025-02-19T20:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T02:04:04","slug":"chemical-found-in-us-drinking-water-is-linked-to-15-higher-risk-of-colorectal-cancer-33-for-bladder-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/chemical-found-in-us-drinking-water-is-linked-to-15-higher-risk-of-colorectal-cancer-33-for-bladder-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Chemical found in US drinking water is linked to 15% higher risk of colorectal cancer, 33% for bladder cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chemical-found-in-us-drinking-water-is-linked-to-15-higher-risk-of-colorectal-cancer-33-for-bladder-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s more evidence that your <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/15\/health\/drinking-water-of-97m-americans-contaminated-with-unregulated-chemicals-study\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"> drinking water may be unsafe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/39837568\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> A new analysis<\/a> out of Sweden reports that disinfecting water with chlorine creates chemical byproducts that can increase the risk of bladder cancer by 33% and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/18\/health\/rising-colorectal-cancer-rates-in-young-people-new-concerns-idd\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"> colorectal cancer<\/a> by 15%.<\/p>\n<p>The culprit appears to be trihalomethanes (THMs), which are made up of four compounds \u2014 chloroform, bromodichloromethane, dibromochloromethane and bromoform. THMs are found in nearly all public water systems in the US and European Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s more evidence that your drinking water may be unsafe. A new analysis out of Sweden reports that disinfecting water with chlorine creates chemical byproducts that can increase the risk of bladder cancer by 33% and colorectal cancer by 15%. The culprit appears to be trihalomethanes (THMs), which are made up of four compounds \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}