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D W Gaylor1, J J Chen, D M Sheehan

  • 1National Center for Toxicological Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas 72079.

Summary

Cancer potency (TD50) estimates show significant variability across experiments, strains, and species. This variability suggests current methods for human cancer risk assessment may overestimate risks from experimental animal data.

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