Carcinogen Articles & Analysis
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This method is highly sensitive to most genotoxic carcinogens. As a primary screening tool, the Ames test can assess the mutagenic potential of novel chemicals and pharmaceuticals. ...
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Exposure to airborne carcinogens can be an occupational hazard for countless workers if the proper health and safety regulations are not being followed. Some of these same carcinogens could even be an exposure risk for anyone entering a building or worksite. ...
In addition to genotoxic impurity testing, CD Formulation also offers analysis of nitrosamine impurities, a class of compounds that have gained significant attention in recent years due to their potential carcinogenic properties. By leveraging expertise in this area, CD Formulation accurately detects and quantifies nitrosamine impurities in pharmaceutical products, ensuring ...
In this publication, find out how Bertin Technologies is involved in the detection of carcinogenic cells and how the Precellys Evolution along with the CKMix lysing kit contributed to efficiently homogenizing frozen tissue samples for DNA and RNA extraction. ...
Environmental exposure to known and probable carcinogens can be a factor. For example, exposure to tobacco smoke, radon and asbestos have all been linked to various forms of cancer. In fact, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) provides a list of substances the agency considers to be potential occupational carcinogens that contains ...
The release of cytokines is stimulated by a variety of cellular stress responses, including carcinogen-induced injury, infection, and inflammation. In these cases, the function of cytokines is to stimulate host responses thus controlling cellular stress and minimizing cellular damage. ...
Environmental exposure to known and probable carcinogens in the home or workplace can also be a factor. For example, exposure to tobacco smoke, radon, formaldehyde and asbestos have all been linked to various forms of cancer and can be found in numerous homes and businesses. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) also warns that millions of U.S. ...
Vincere is also dedicated to providing the best cancer diagnostic tools to first responders, since they are at greater risk of exposure to dangerous carcinogens and toxins. “Vincere Cancer Center is committed to providing the best and latest cancer care. ...
Equipped with all the equipment needed, including LC/MS and GC/MS systems, CD Formulation is well-positioned in the industry to carry out nitrosamine impurities analysis. The genotoxic and carcinogenic potential of N-nitrosamines raises a serious safety concern, and in September 2020, the FDA issued guidance for the pharmaceutical industry regarding the control of nitrosamines in ...
Vulvovaginal candidiasis may develop with SOLOSEC and require treatment with an antifungal agent. Potential risk of carcinogenicity is unknown and has not been studied in patients. Carcinogenicity has been seen in rodents chronically treated with nitroimidazole derivatives, which are structurally related to secnidazole. ...
For this reason, liver fluke is one of only two parasites that have been designated as biological carcinogens by the World Health Organization. Liver fluke infection has been raised as a possible risk factor for cholangiocarcinoma in U.S. personnel who served in Vietnam between 1961-1975, who are estimated to number over 600,000 today. ...
It is an excellent time to educate employers, employees and the public about the many ways they can lower their chances of developing cancer by avoiding exposure to carcinogens in the home and workplace. “The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has a published list of substances it considers to be potential occupational ...
The US uses the antibiotic growth promoter carbadox in pigs, a drug which is completely banned in Europe because it has been shown to be carcinogenic in some animals. US authorities are currently considering banning carbadox. ...
It is also the ideal opportunity to educate the public and workers about things they can do to minimize their chances of getting the disease by avoiding exposure to known airborne carcinogens. This is all the more important as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that more men and women in the United States die from lung cancer than any other type of ...
In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer – the main authority to identify carcinogens – had classified glyphosate as a probable carcinogen, based on the assessment of exclusively public and peer-reviewed scientific literature. ...
While smokers can choose to quit, those impacted by secondhand smoke don’t always have the option to avoid exposure to airborne carcinogens from tobacco smoke. Secondhand smoke contains over 7,000 chemicals, including about 70 that can cause cancer. ...
Smoking remains the number one cause of lung cancer, but there are also a number of air quality and industrial contaminants that are known carcinogens. These include radon, a cause of lung cancer that is believed to result in an estimated 20,000 lung cancer deaths each year in the U.S. ...
Many health and safety guidelines in the workplace are meant to help workers avoid carcinogens. For example, inhalation exposure to silica particulates and asbestos fibers have both been linked to lung cancer. ...
Lung Cancer Awareness Month takes place each year during November. The designation is meant to raise awareness of this deadly disease that takes the lives of so many residents of Puerto Rica each year. As of 2014, the most recent year that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has lung cancer figures, more than 215,000 people nationwide were diagnosed with lung cancer. That same ...
The Soil Association says the substances, their uses and areas of concern are: ethyl hexylsalicylate: UV filter; potential allergen and toxic to the environment; homosalate: UVB protection; potential allergen and endocrine disruptor; imidazolidinyl urea: helps skin contain moisture; may release a carcinogen; octinoxate: blocks UVB rays; potential endocrine disruptor and ...