Cancer prevention: past, present, future.

doi:10.1016/s0027-5107(97)00276-5

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Cancer prevention: past, present, future.

Mutation research - 18 Jun 1998

Sugimura T

Abstract excerpt

There are many examples of different types of cancers that have been prevented by appropriate measures in the past. Most of them were related to occupational, iatrogenic or accidental factors, often as the outcome of heavy exposure of humans to specific carcinogenic agents. Cancer is a disease of...

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Anticarcinogenic Agents
Humans
Mutation
Neoplasms
Smoking Cessation

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