carcinogenesis
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editcarcinogenesis (countable and uncountable, plural carcinogeneses)
- (oncology) The creation of cancer cells.
- Hyponyms: carcinomagenesis, sarcomagenesis
- 1982, Yutaka Kawazoe, “Molecular Mechanism of Chemical Modification of Cellular Nucleic Acid Bases by 4-Hydroxyaminoquinoline 1-oxide”, in Carcinogenic and Mutagenic N-substituted Aryl Compounds, page 185:
- Whether they are involved in carcinogenesis by induction of a heritable lesion would depend, I believe, on their ability either to mispair or to misrepair.
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editthe creation of cancer cells
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edit- carcinogenesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia