carcinogenesis
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of carcinogenesis
Example Sentences
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"In this way, p53 is very effective in preventing carcinogenesis," explains Strebhardt.
From Science Daily • Jan. 24, 2024
These medications can have a profound impact on the gut microbiome, potentially tweaking it in ways that foster carcinogenesis.
From Scientific American • Nov. 18, 2021
Further, survivors of childhood cancer are at an increased risk for secondary carcinogenesis and cardiac morbidity and mortality, even beyond 50 years of age.
From Scientific American • Jun. 24, 2019
Because DCCs represent the earliest stages of cancer, they may allow more clinically relevant investigation of carcinogenesis than benign or putative precursor lesions, for which transition to malignancy is unpredictable.
From Nature • Sep. 18, 2013
The chlorinated hydrocarbons are precisely the kind of agent that can bring about this kind of indirect carcinogenesis, because all of them are toxic in some degree to the liver.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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