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Carcinogens

"Carcinogens" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Substances that increase the risk of NEOPLASMS in humans or animals. Both genotoxic chemicals, which affect DNA directly, and nongenotoxic chemicals, which induce neoplasms by other mechanism, are included.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Carcinogens" by people in this website by year, and whether "Carcinogens" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 24 publications over 14 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2003
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