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The cause of 50 to 60 percent of all cancer is the large amount of carcinogenic BENZENE with its electrostatic potential that is added to granular, tablet, and powdered laundry detergents.

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In a nutshell:

Benzene is added to laundry detergents
One very likely and under-researched cause of cancer resides quietly in most of America's laundry rooms. This is benzene, which is part of a molecule added to most powdered laundry detergents. The benzene in manufactured petroleum-based synthetic linear alkylbenzene sulfonic acid (LAS, also called DDBSA) is absorbed into your clothes as you wash them, and is then absorbed into your body as you wear the clothes. The body’s macrophage cells release the benzene from the LAS molecules so the benzene with its unique electrostatic potential is free to wreak havoc on the cells it encounters in the body.

In 1965, the U.S. required that laundry detergent manufacturers replace foaming phosphates with non-foaming LAS/DDBSA detergents. The incidence of cancer in the U.S. has been increasing ever since the U.S. switched to the LAS/DDBSA detergents.  

Benzene is absorbed through the skin
Approximately 1 to 3 percent of the LAS/DDBSA detergents remains in our clothes after being washed. Wring out your hand towel or laundry item 4-5 times in hot water to see, smell, and feel the LAS/DDBSA benzene-rich slime on and in the water.  

When we sweat, we absorb the benzene from the LAS/DDBSA in powder laundry detergents into our moist pelvic area. In time, this can cause prostate, colon, rectal, liver, pancreatic, ovarian, vaginal, vulva, testicular, penile, bladder, kidney and other types of cancer. These cancers of the pelvic region account for over 30 percent of all cancer affecting the U.S. population. 

We also absorb the benzene in LAS/DDBSA-containing powder detergents into the lymphatic glands of our moist underarms, which can also cause breast cancer, which accounts for over 10 percent of cancer types affecting the U.S. population.

Our skin is a very porous receptor. Currently, at least ten drugs or chemicals are administered in very small doses (a millionth or billionth of a gram) through the skin using moist dermal patches. The LAS/DDBSA powder detergent levels are 500-1,000 times stronger, when compared to the patches that we use on our skin to administer other drugs.
  • 24 hrs of Nicotine @ 7 Mg, this gives you 290 Micro grams per hour (approx. 1 millionth of a gram).
  • 72 hrs of Estrogen @ .05 Mg, this gives you 694 Nano grams per hour (approx. 1 billionth of a gram).
  • 72 hrs of Duragesic @ 25Mcg, this gives you 250 Nano grams per hour (approx. 1 billionth of a gram).
  • 10 hours of Nitroglycerin @ .013 Mcg, this is 130 Nano grams per hour (approx. 1 billionth of a gram).

It is not much of a stretch to see that benzene could also be absorbed through the skin in much larger concentrations, given that we soak our clothes in benzene-containing detergents and then wear them for long periods of time, such as when we "Run for the Cure" for cancer.

Health effects of benzene (excerpted from the World of Molecules Web site)
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has determined that benzene is a known human carcinogen. Long-term exposure to high levels of benzene in the air can cause leukemia, cancer of the blood-forming organs.

Several tests can show if you have been exposed to benzene. There is test for measuring benzene in the breath; this test must be done shortly after exposure. Benzene can also be measured in the blood; however, since benzene disappears rapidly from the blood, measurements are accurate only for recent exposures.

In the body, benzene is metabolized. Certain metabolites can be measured in the urine. However, this test must be done shortly after exposure and is not a reliable indicator of how much benzene you have been exposed to, since the same metabolites may be present in urine from other sources.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has set the maximum permissible level of benzene in drinking water at 0.005 milligrams per liter (0.005 mg/L). The EPA requires that spills or accidental releases into the environment of 10 pounds or more of benzene be reported to the EPA.

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has set a permissible exposure limit of 1 part of benzene per million parts of air (1 ppm) in the workplace during an 8-hour workday, 40-hour workweek.

Cancer epidemic information
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Cancer Atlas for the 1999s:
  • On page 9 of the Atlas, the 1970-1995 (25 years) national mortality rates for all cancers combined were 54 percent HIGHER for white females and 84 percent HIGHER among black females compared to the 20 year period from 1950-1970.

The Washington State Cancer Registry says that we have an incidence rate for the last six years of 27,000 people per year who will be diagnosed with cancer. (Verify this for yourself by opening the link above, selecting the type of cancer and year at the top of the page, then clicking Fact Sheets in the left column.) At a current death rate of 40 percent, this equals 12,000 deaths per year. This is 28 of your friends and families from Washington dying each day from cancer.

  • In 2002, 1.2 million people contracted cancer and 552,000 have died at a cost of $107 BILLION.
  • In 2003, 1.3 million people contracted cancer and 556,000 have died at a cost of $112 BILLION.
  • In 2004, the CDC says that approximately 1.4 million people will contract cancer and 560,000 will die at a cost of $119 BILLION. 

Do you see a trend here? Cancer, hypertension, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer disease, diabetes ALL have two things in common: All are epidemic and the causes are not well understood.

To reduce your chances of becoming a statistic, don't use granular, tablet, or powdered laundry detergents that contain linear alkylbenzene sulfonic acid. Use your power as a consumer to send a message to the laundry detergent manufacturers to find a safe alternative to LAS.

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