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carcinogenesis

American  
[kahr-suh-nuh-jen-uh-sis, -noh-] / ˌkɑr sə nəˈdʒɛn ə sɪs, -noʊ- /

noun

Pathology.
  1. the development of a cancer.


carcinogenesis British  
/ ˌkɑːsɪnəʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs /

noun

  1. pathol the development of cancerous cells from normal ones

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Etymology

Origin of carcinogenesis

First recorded in 1925–30; carcino- + -genesis

Example Sentences

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"In this way, p53 is very effective in preventing carcinogenesis," explains Strebhardt.

From Science Daily • Jan. 24, 2024

Further, survivors of childhood cancer are at an increased risk for secondary carcinogenesis and cardiac morbidity and mortality, even beyond 50 years of age.

From Scientific American • Jun. 24, 2019

Because DCCs represent the earliest stages of cancer, they may allow more clinically relevant investigation of carcinogenesis than benign or putative precursor lesions, for which transition to malignancy is unpredictable.

From Nature • Sep. 18, 2013

These include: bone fracture, decompression sickness, radiation carcinogenesis, cardiac rhythm problems, inadequate nutrition, adverse behavioral conditions and psychiatric disorders, early onset of osteoporosis due to spaceflight, renal stone formation, and spaceflight-induced intracranial hypertension/vision alterations.

From Scientific American • Apr. 16, 2013

The chlorinated hydrocarbons are precisely the kind of agent that can bring about this kind of indirect carcinogenesis, because all of them are toxic in some degree to the liver.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson