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Information value of the rodent bioassay

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Tests for human carcinogens using lifetime rodent bioassays are expensive, time-consuming and give uncertain results. For most chemicals such tests are not cost-effective.

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  1. Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213, USA

    Lester B. Lave

  2. Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106, USA

    Fanny K. Ennever & Herbert S. Rosenkranz

  3. School of Public Health and Community Medicine, and Dana Program in Genetics and Environmental Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195, USA

    Gilbert S. Omenn

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