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Known Short Term Cancer Causing Agent

Charles Miller rellim at tulane.edu
Mon Jun 9 17:15:26 EST 2003


To my knowledge there are no chemicals or physical agents that cause cancers
in a time frame of a few months. Cancers arise through a complex series of
genetic changes that take years to occur in humans. Perhaps a potent
tumorigenic virus might cause cancer in a relatively short period.



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Dr. Charles A. Miller III
Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
374 Johnston Building, SL29
Tulane Univ. School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
1430 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70112
(504)585-6942, rellim at tulane.edu
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