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Mechanistic data and cancer risk assessment: the need for quantitative molecular endpoints.
Environmental and molecular mutagenesis - 1 Jan 2000
Preston R Julian
Abstract excerpt
The cancer risk assessment process as currently proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allows for the use of mechanistic data to inform the low-dose tumor response in humans and in laboratory animals. The aim is to reduce the reliance on defaults that introduce a relatively high level of uncertainty to the risk estimates. The types of data required for this purpose are those that help identify key...
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