Carcinogens
Substances and environmental factors that can cause cancer or contribute to the growth of abnormal calls in the body. Certain toxic chemicals, pollutants such as cigarette smoke are considered as carcinogens.
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carcinogens - substances that cause cancer, such as tar.
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Carcinogens are agents, usually chemical, that promote cancer.
Carrying capacity is the maximum number of individuals of a defined species that a given environment can support over the long term.
Doctors and scientists do not fully understand how carcinogens cause cancer, but much is known about the kinds of substances that cause the cancers.
The term includes nutrients, sediment, pathogens, toxic metals, carcinogens, oxygen-demanding materials, and all other harmful substances.
The most common form of cancer is lung cancer because many carcinogens come in contact with the human respiratory system via respiration. Learn which of these airborne carcinogens strongly correlate to which respiratory or lung disease.
or contribute to the production of cancer. 2) A chemical classification for the purpose of risk assessment based on the weight of evidence for human carcinogenicity according to USEPA 1986 Guidelines for Risk Assessment, in which carcinogens are ...
Secondhand smoke contains most of the 4,000 chemicals and at least 50 known carcinogens that are generated by smoking.
aesthetically pleasing air, water or food and from which no adverse effect is expected concerning noncarcinogenic endpoints, or that gives an acceptably low estimate of lifetime cancer risk from those substances which are proven human carcinogens or ...
The term 'health hazard' includes chemicals which are carcinogens, toxic or highly toxic agents, reproductive toxins, irritants, corrosives, sensitizers, hepatotoxins (liver damage), nephrotoxins (kidney damage), neurotoxins (nervous system damage), ...
Organic Compound: any carbon-based substance, including some petroleum products, solvents, pesticides, and halomethanes. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are those which are readily vaporized; a number of these are known or probable carcinogens.
fungicides as well as industrial chemicals such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The compounds are characteristically stable, fat-soluble and bioaccumulate. Organochlorines pose a range of adverse human health risks and some are carcinogens.
kidney failure and chronic kidney disease, and others can cause acute toxic damage to the liver. The US Public Health Service has conclusively established that benzene can cause leukemia, while other solvents are suspected of being human carcinogens.
 See also: Carcinogen, Air, Reduce, Environment, Exposure
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