Carcinogen

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-004213",
  "term": "Carcinogen",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definitions": [
    "1. An agent capable of inducing cancer.\n\n2. Any substance that can cause or aggravate cancer.\n\n3. A substance or agent capable of causing cancer. A suspected carcinogen is a substance that may cause cancer in humans or animals but for which the evidence is not conclusive.\n\n4. (car-SIN-o-jen) Any substance which tends to produce cancer in an organism.\n\n5. A substance or agent that may produce or increase the risk of cancer.\n\n6. Something that causes cancer.\n\n7. A substance that can cause or contribute to cancer.\n\n8. Something which causes cancer to occur by causing changes in a cell's DNA.\n\n9. Substances that increase the risk of neoplasms in humans or animals. Both genotoxic chemicals, which affect DNA directly, and nongenotoxic chemicals, which induce neoplasms by other mechanism, are included.\n\n10. Any chemical that can increase the risk of neoplasms in humans or animals.\n\n11. Any substance which tends to produce cancer in an organism.\n\n12. A carcinogen is an agent with the capacity to cause cancer in humans. Carcinogens may be natural, such as aflatoxin, which is produced by a fungus and sometimes found on stored grains, or manmade, such as asbestos or tobacco smoke. Carcinogens work by interacting with a cell's DNA and inducing genetic mutations.\n\n13. Substance which causes an increased incidence of benign or malignant neoplasms, or substantially decreases the time to develop neoplasms, in animals or humans. The classification of carcinogens is discussed in section II.A of appendix C to part 132.\n\n14. Chemical or physical agent that can cause cancer.\n\n15. A chemical, physical, or biological agent that can cause cancer.\n\n16. Any substance that causes cancer.\n\n17. A chemical that causes cancer.",
    "Any substance that can cause or aggravate cancer."
  ],
  "subject": [
    "Chemical substances",
    "Chemicals, toxics and pesticides"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Glossary",
    "RCRA Glossary of Terms; Terms of Environment",
    "Pesticides Glossary",
    "Drinking Water Technical & Legal Terms",
    "Superfund for Students and Teachers Glossary",
    "Lake Erie Lakewide Management Plan (LaMP) Glossary",
    "I-BEAM Glossary of Terms",
    "U.S. Department of Energy, Human Genome Project Information, Genome Glossary",
    "NIH Genetics Home Reference Glossary",
    "40 CFR 132.2 (CFR 2013); 40 CFR Appendix C to Part 132 (CFR 2013)",
    "National Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) Glossary",
    "AirToxScreen Glossary of Terms",
    "Glossary of Asbestos-related Terms and Acronyms",
    "Toxics Release Inventory Glossary",
    "Terms of Env"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/carcinogen/"
}