Auramine O, an incense smoke ingredient, promotes lung cancer malignancy
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Auramine O, an incense smoke ingredient, promotes lung cancer malignancy
Burning incense to worship deities is a popular religious ritual in large parts of Asia, and is a popular custom affecting more than 1.5 billion adherents. Due to incomplete combustion, burning incense has been well recognized to generate airborne hazards to human health. However, the correlation between burning incense and lung cancer in epidemiological studies remains controversy. Therefore, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Toxicology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1520-4081
DOI: 10.1002/tox.22451