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Carcinogens
Foods Referencing Carcinogens
A cancer-causing substance or agent. There are three major stages in cancer development.
- Initiation, in which a cancer-causing agent first damages a cell's genetic material.
- Promotion, when cells in which initiation has occurred are exposed to chemicals that speed up cell division. Such chemicals cannot initiate cancer themselves: Generally long-term exposure to these promoters is necessary for cancer to develop. Nutritional factors are thought to have their greatest impact on cancer in this stage.
- Progression is the final stage of cancer development when cells become fully malignant and acquire the ability to metastasize, or spread, to other parts of the body.
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