Team develops new model for investigating tobacco/oral cancer link
Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 13:40
in Health & Medicine
Although tobacco use is widely understood to be one of the leading causes of oral cancer, research on the prevention of tobacco-related oral cancer in experimental animals has traditionally been limited to examining the impact of synthetic carcinogens manufactured especially for cancer research, rather than on observing the effects of carcinogens that occur in tobacco smoke.