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Welcome to the Office of Toxic Substances’ Conference on the “Application of Biological Markers to Carcinogen Testing.” This meeting marks the signal development in the evolution of the application of science at the Office of Toxic Substances of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA). The tone of the conference can perhaps best be expressed by the words of Henry Pitot in the second edition of his Fundamentals of Oncology, “Although the production of neoplasia in animals at a statistically higher level than in controls has been considered indicative of carcinogenicity of the agent under study, modern concepts of the natural history of neoplastic development require that this simplistic evaluation of the data be reconsidered.” In other words, it is time that we look beyond the “black box” approach to carcinogen testing and evaluation.
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Todhunter, J.A. (1983). Welcoming Remarks. In: Milman, H.A., Sell, S. (eds) Application of Biological Markers to Carcinogen Testing. Environmental Science Research, vol 29. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3790-4_1
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