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What does tumorigenic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (pathology) that can cause tumors
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A tumorigenic ovarian cancer cell line failed to form tumours in athymic mice.
Cancer initiating cells are 1,000 times more tumorigenic than other cancer cells and are capable of self-renewals.
The repeat long-term mouse study showed evidence of a tumorigenic response in the livers of the females at the highest dose level, however this was not considered to be biologically significant.
So far, more than 2,500 components have been identified in the tobacco leaf and more than 3,900 components in tobacco smoke. Many of these have possible tumorigenic and carcinogenic effects.
This process is thought to stimulate tumorigenic growth and to allow the intraductal proliferations to progress to carcinoma.
Carbofuran was not carcinogenic or tumorigenic in the two-year studies in rats and mice, based on both gross and microscopic examinations.

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