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Main Title Human Carcinogenesis by Arsenic.
Author Mass, M. J. ;
CORP Author Health Effects Research Lab., Research Triangle Park, NC. Carcinogenesis and Metabolism Branch.
Publisher c1992
Year Published 1992
Report Number EPA/600/J-92/316;
Stock Number PB92-227578
Additional Subjects Carcinogenesis ; Arsenic ; Toxicity ; Cocarcinogenesis ; Neoplastic cell transformation ; Risk assessment ; Mutagenicity tests ; Syrian hamsters ; Human ; Foreign technology
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Abstract Arsenic is one of the few human carcinogens for which there is not yet a reliable animal cancer model. As such, the classification of arsenic as a carcinogen is based upon data derived from human epidemiologic studies. Although the mechanisms of action of arsenic as a toxic agent have been known for many years, the inability to produce cancer in laboratory animals with arsenic has confounded the operational characterization of arsenic as initiator, promoter, complete carcinogen, or cocarcinogen for humans. Arsenic is clearly a genotoxic agent that induces chromosomal aberrations, micronuclei, and sister chromatid exchange in mammalian cells as well as neoplastically transforms Syrian hamster embryo cells; however, it is not a classical point mutagen. The manuscript reviews some of the scientifically based issues relating to arsenic and risk assessment. (Copyright (c) Science and Technology Letters 1991.)
Supplementary Notes Pub. in Jnl. of Environmental Geochemistry and Health, v14 p49-54 Jul 92.
NTIS Title Notes Journal article.
Category Codes 57Y; 57E
NTIS Prices PC A02/MF A01
Primary Description 600/10
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Control Number 229734160
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