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Carcinogen Exposure and Epigenetic Silencing in Bladder Cancer
1 Sept 2006
Abstract excerpt
Tobacco smoking, certain occupational exposures, and exposure to inorganic arsenic in drinking water have been associated with the occurrence of bladder cancer. However, in these tumors the exposure-associated pattern of somatic alterations in genes in the causal pathway for disease has been poorly characterized. Animal and in vitro studies have suggested that arsenic, tobacco carcinogens, and other exposures may...
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