--- title: "Random Guy Who Is Not a Doctor Charging $20,000 to Inject Bleach Into Your Cancer Cells" description: "An unlicensed and untrained wellness practitioner is injecting bleach into people's tumors — and now, he's trying to bring it stateside." date: "2025-07-28" modified: "2025-07-28" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/neoscope/unlicensed-bleach-injection" categories: - "Cancer" - "Health & Medicine" - "Medical" - "Treatments" tags: - "cancer" - "pseudoscience" - "rfk jr" - "wellness" --- # Random Guy Who Is Not a Doctor Charging $20,000 to Inject Bleach Into Your Cancer Cells ![An unlicensed and untrained wellness practitioner is injecting bleach into people's tumors — and now, he's trying to bring it stateside.]() *\Image: Getty / Futurism\* An unlicensed and untrained wellness practitioner is injecting bleach into people's tumors — and now, he's trying to enter an American market more primed for such unproven treatments than ever before. As [*Wired* reports](), Chinese "inventor" Xuewu Liu's alarming mix featuring chlorine dioxide, a highly toxic bleach compound, is injected directly into cancerous tumors in hopes of shrinking them. Though he counts 20 success stories for his high-dose bleach injections, one woman who actually underwent Liu's treatment, which costs about $20,000 and is currently only available at clinics in China and Germany, suggested the purported cure may have exacerbated her illness. In an interview with *Wired*, the woman said she contacted Liu via WhatsApp — his apparent messaging platform of choice, given that he also uses screenshots from it in testimonials — and suffered near-immediate side effects when administering the so-called "treatment" herself. "It was fine after the injection, but I was woken up by severe pain \[like\] I had never experienced in my life," the woman, a Chinese national living in the United Kingdom, said. "The pain lasted for three to four days." Still, she chose to inject herself again a few months later and then traveled to China to have the solution administered by Liu, who isn't licensed in China or anywhere else to provide medical care. Unsurprisingly, things only got worse from there. "The tumor shrinks first, then it grows faster than before," the woman said. "My tumor has spread to the skin after injection. I suspect it is because the chlorine dioxide has broken the vein and the cancer cells go to the skin area." In his own interview with *Wired*, Liu rejected the woman's claims and said her side effects stemmed from her failure to complete a full course of the injections. He also told the magazine that he's injected himself with the solution more than 50 times with no side effects, a "personal data point" that "encouraged" him to move forward with his quest to inject the brew into other people. Liu now has his sights set on the United States, where Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has emboldened the so-called "bleacher" community. He claims that he wrote to the Health and Human Services secretary about conducting more clinical research into chlorine dioxide — and indeed, the FDA did [remove a warning about the practice]() earlier this year. "Without the FDA’s heavy-handed warnings, it’s likely my therapy would have been accepted for trials years earlier," Liu told *Wired, "*with institutional partnerships and investor support." Those same sort of "heavy-handed warnings" were, notably, used to try to [dispel the notion]() that people should use hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 — and given that [tens of thousands of people]() are estimated to have died from taking the horse dewormer, we're probably gonna stick with the experts on this one. **More on pseudoscience:** [*Scientists Just Found Something Hilarious About What Actually Happens When Muscle Bros Take Ice Baths*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()