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Inflammation as a Cancer Co-Initiator: New Mechanistic Model Predicts Low/Negligible Risk at Noninflammatory Carcinogen Doses
1 Apr 2019
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Linear-no-threshold (LNT) risk extrapolation has long been applied to estimate risks posed by low-level environmental carcinogen exposures, based on the 60-year-old multistage somatic mutation/clonal expansion (MSM) cancer theory. Recent evidence supports an alternative theory: Malignant tumors arise most efficiently from a stem cell that incurs requisite mutations and also is activated by inflammation to an...
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