Cancerous Contradictions: The Mis-Regulation of Human Carcinogens Based on Animal Data*
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predictivity by Andrew Knight, Jarrod Bailey and Jonathan Balcombe, which received the Animal Welfare Poster Award from Deutscher Tierschutzbund (the German Animal Welfare Federation) at the 5th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences, Berlin, 25 August 2005. Reproduced with permission from the complete paper: Knight, A., Bailey, J., Balcombe, J. (2006). Animal carcinogenicity studies: 1. poor human predictivity. Alternatives to Laboratory Animals 34(1), 19-27. THEME 7, SESSION 7.6
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