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20.104[J] Environmental Cancer Risks, Prevention, and Therapy
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Undergrad (Spring)
Not offered regularly; consult department
(Same subject as 1.081[J])
Prereq: Biology (GIR), Calculus II (GIR), and Chemistry (GIR)
Units: 3-0-9
Subject Cancelled Subject Cancelled
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Analysis of the history of cancer and vascular disease mortality rates in predominantly European- and African-American US cohorts, 1895-2016, to discover specific historical shifts. Explored in terms of contemporaneously changing environmental risk factors: air-, food- and water-borne chemicals; subclinical infections; diet and lifestyles. Special section on occupational risk factors. Considers the hypotheses that genetic and/or environmental factors affect metakaryotic stem cell mutation rates in fetuses and juveniles and/or their growth rates of preneoplastic in adults.
W. Thilly, R. McCunney