Meanings of environmental carcinogens in English

DPCs can be induced endogenously or through environmental carcinogens and chemotherapeutic agents.

Genetic alterations in cancer tissues may reflect the mutational fingerprint of environmental carcinogens.

Asbestos, like many environmental carcinogens, has a long latency period.

These techniques are particularly useful for screening human populations for exposure to potential environmental carcinogens.

Results demonstrate that cumulative exposures to multiple environmental carcinogens and neurotoxins can be comparatively high for children from a poor inner-city neighborhood.

Conclusions: These results point toward a role of AGT polymorphisms in lung cancer susceptibility among never-smokers, in particular among subjects exposed to environmental carcinogens.

Current knowledge is insufficient to explain why only a proportion of individuals exposed to environmental carcinogens or carrying a genetic predisposition to cancer develop disease.

Environmental carcinogens, in a strict sense, include outdoor and indoor air pollutants, as well as soil and drinking water contaminants.