Definitions
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- adjective Causing or tending to cause cancer.
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- adjective Causing or tending to cause
cancer .
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- adjective causing or tending to cause cancer
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Examples
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However, Johnston - a Canadian researcher based in London - said she could not rule out the possibility of a long-term carcinogenic hazard in the future.
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In fact, much of it could more accurately be described as carcinogenic and toxic.
Adopting a vegan diet will improve our health – and the planet's Poorva Joshipura 2010
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Formaldehyde is classified as a carcinogenic agent.
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They are usually very generous with other peoples money that is for sure and the goals they pick (e.g. the protection against so called carcinogenic substances) is a dramatic life costing waste of money. ( see here ).
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They are usually very generous with other peoples money that is for sure and the goals they pick e.g. the protection against so called carcinogenic substances is a dramatic life costing waste of money.
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But we should not forget that Formaldehyde is known as carcinogenic chemical.
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Regardless of her age, income, or medical issues— whether that old "family history" bugbear or environmental factors such as carcinogenic poisons rampant in our food, water, and air— no American woman should be restricted to a single diagnostic tool when a careful synergy of multiple screening methods is sure to be more accurate, accessible, and affordable.
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The same is true of the majority of the food additives that are now considered to be "carcinogenic" based exclusively on animal experiments, notes ACSH.
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Illes, Hungary's State Secretary for the Environment, the waste is "carcinogenic" and may pose a long-term threat.
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Illes, Hungary's State Secretary for the Environment, the waste is "carcinogenic" and may pose a long-term threat.
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