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Mustard gas exposure and carcinogenesis of lung.
Mutation research - 1 Aug 2009
Hosseini-khalili Alireza, Haines David D, Modirian Ehsan, Soroush Mohammadreza, Khateri Shahriar, Joshi Rashmi, Zendehdel Kazem, Ghanei Mostafa, Giardina Charles
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Sulfur mustard (SM), also known as mustard gas, is an alkylating compound used as a chemical weapon in World War I and by Iraqi forces against Iranians and indigenous Iraqi Kurds during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s. Although SM is a proven carcinogen there are conflicting views regarding the carcinogenicity of a single exposure. The present study characterizes lung cancers formed in mustard gas...
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