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Contact: Karen Kreeger
karen.kreeger@uphs.upenn.edu
215-349-5658
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

PAHs and Lung Cancer

Caption: Chemical intermediate causes formation of reactive oxygen species in second indirect pathway connecting polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to lung cancer.

Credit: Trevor Penning, PhD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

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