Why are some chemicals carcinogens and other aren’t?
In: Biology
A carcinogen is anything that’s thought to increase risk of cancer, but that can happen by a lot of different mechanisms. Ultimately it’s about how the chemical effects mutation rate in DNA, but it can do that by damaging DNA directly, by disabling certain mutation-correcting mechanisms, by increasing cell reproduction rate or by all sorts of other methods. A non-carcinogen is simply any chemical that *doesn’t* do something like that.
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