The phrase "carcinogenic potential" means that something has the ability to cause or increase the risk of developing cancer.
Sentences with «carcinogenic potential»
Southern Research's DART program is a key partner of the National Toxicology Program, which is responsible for evaluating the toxic and carcinogenic potential of environmental agents that may pose a health hazard to U.S. citizens. (southernresearch.org)
[14] Environmental Protection Agency, Chemicals Evaluated for Carcinogenic Potential — Annual Cancer Report 2015. (ota.com)
«Our findings suggest a paradigm shift from thinking of HPV16 as a single viral entity undergoing slow genetic drift to considering each HPV16 isolate to be a separate virus, with possibly different carcinogenic potential, which will necessarily lead to a re-interpretation of HPV natural history and carcinogenesis,» says lead author Lisa Mirabello of the National Cancer Institute, NIH. (sciencedaily.com)