Distilled water versus chemotherapeutic agents for transitional bladder carcinoma.

The effect of distilled water on exfoliated tumor cells from transitional bladder carcinoma was compared to the effect of chemotherapeutic agents dissolved in saline and in distilled water. The experiment was controlled by comparison to the effect of saline on cells under the same conditions. Distilled water proved as effective as chemotherapeutic agents in distilled water and more destructive than chemotherapeutic agents in saline within the 2-hour time limit of the experiment.