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Volume 336 Issue 6200, 15 December 1988

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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.

    • Lester B. Lave
    • Fanny K. Ennever
    • Gilbert S. Omenn
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