Free Radicals and Carcinogenesis |
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Authors: | Bernard D Goldstein Gisela Witz |
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a Department of Environment and Community Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute 675 Hoes Lanes, Piscataway, NJ, USA |
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Abstract: | The role of free radicals and active states of oxygen in human cancer is as yet unresolved. Various lines of evidence provide strong but inferential evidence that free radical reactions can be of crucial importance in certain carcinogenic mechanisms. A central point in considering free radical reactions in carcinogenesis is that human cancer is really a group of highly diverse diseases for which the initial causation and the progression to clinical disease occur through a wide variety of mechanisms. Furthermore, for many human cancers it appears that there are alternate pathways capable of tumor initiation and tumor progression. While for certain of these pathways free radical reactions appear necessary, it is unlikely that there are human cancers for which free radicals, or any other mechanism, are sufficient for the entire processbeginning with the genetic alteration leading to a somatic mutation and eventually resulting in clinically overt disease. It is crucial that we view free radical reactions as aong a panoply of mechanisms leading to human cancer, and consider research about the role of free radicals in cancer as opportunities to prevent the initiation or progression of human cancer. |
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Keywords: | Free radicals tumor promotors phorbol esters phagocytic cells active oxygen carcinogenesis |
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