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Carcinogenic effect of an antitumor drug etoposide in laboratory animals

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Intravenous injection of antitumor drug etoposide in the maximum tolerated dose was followed by the development of breast cancer in 38.1% female Wistar rats and 6.7% female outbred mice.

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Translated from Byulleten’ Eksperimental’noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 144, No. 11, pp. 568–571, November, 2007

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Fomina, T.I., Perelmuter, V.M., Vtorushin, S.V. et al. Carcinogenic effect of an antitumor drug etoposide in laboratory animals. Bull Exp Biol Med 144, 725–727 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10517-007-0416-0

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