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- noun pathology The
creation ofcancer cells .
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Secondly, the length of feeding was at most only three months, and thus only relatively acute and medium-term effects can be observed if any similar to what can be derived in a process such as carcinogenesis [
Signs of the Times 2010
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The early hypothesis that cervical cancer was caused by papillomaviruses, the successful isolation and characterisation of the two most frequent HPV types in this cancer and the subsequent steps leading to a better understanding of the mechanism of HPV-mediated carcinogenesis and eventually to the development of a preventive vaccine were cited as the prime reasons for awarding one half of the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology to me in 2008.
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Despite an apparent lack of studies comparing the effects of fermented vs. nonfermented soy foods on tumor development in lab animals, studies of miso show that it inhibits breast, stomach and colon carcinogenesis.
Craig Cooper: Soy: When It's Good, When It's Bad, And How To Tell Craig Cooper 2010
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We can do autopsies on persons who smoked, we can do toxicologic studies on their lungs, we can perform carcinogenesis studies on chemicals in cigarette smoke, and we can gather epidemiologic data on smoking and diseases such as emphysema, lung cancer, and heart disease.
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Despite an apparent lack of studies comparing the effects of fermented vs. nonfermented soy foods on tumor development in lab animals, studies of miso show that it inhibits breast, stomach and colon carcinogenesis.
Craig Cooper: Soy: When It's Good, When It's Bad, And How To Tell Craig Cooper 2010
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Despite an apparent lack of studies comparing the effects of fermented vs. nonfermented soy foods on tumor development in lab animals, studies of miso show that it inhibits breast, stomach and colon carcinogenesis.
Craig Cooper: Soy: When It's Good, When It's Bad, And How To Tell Craig Cooper 2010
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Chemoprevention of N-nitroso-N-methylurea-induced rat mammary carcinogenesis by soy foods or biochanin A.
Craig Cooper: Soy: When It's Good, When It's Bad, And How To Tell Craig Cooper 2010
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His discovery of reverse transcription had certainly overturned the dogma of cellular biology, but it had not pushed the understanding of human carcinogenesis far.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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He discovered the genetic basis for the process by which normal cells are transformed into cancer cells, known as chemical carcinogenesis, a discovery that was considered a major advance in the field.
Theodore Focht, Harry Gelboin, Doris Deakin, Thomas Baxter, Gary Bearor 2010
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Dr. Gelboin was chief of the molecular carcinogenesis laboratory at the National Cancer Institute from 1966 to 1999.
Theodore Focht, Harry Gelboin, Doris Deakin, Thomas Baxter, Gary Bearor 2010
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