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An Inventor Is Injecting Bleach Into Cancerous Tumors—and Wants to Bring the Treatment to the US

David Gilbert

created: July 24, 2025, 3:28 p.m. | updated: Aug. 2, 2025, 12:43 p.m.

Xuewu Liu, a Chinese inventor who has no medical training or credentials of any kind, is charging cancer patients $20,000 for access to an AI-driven but entirely unproven treatment that includes injecting a highly concentrated dose of chlorine dioxide, a toxic bleach solution, directly into cancerous tumors. Nonetheless, while Liu currently only offers the treatment informally in China and at a German clinic, he is now working with a Texas-based former pharmaceutical executive to bring his treatment to America. Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement is embracing alternative medicines and the idea of giving patients the freedom to try unproven treatments. He says he wrote to Kennedy earlier this year urging him to conduct more research on chlorine dioxide. The treatments typically involve drinking liquid chlorine dioxide on a regular basis, using solutions with concentrations of chlorine dioxide of around 3,000 parts per million (ppm), which is diluted further in water.

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