Abstract
Twenty-five years after discovery of the skin-irritant and tumour-promoting diterpene esters in Euphorbiaceae species at the Institut für Biochemie of the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum basic knowledge has been developed enough to be used successfully in management of a putative risk of cancer associated with innovative explorations of Euphorbiaceae as renewable industrial resources. Therefore, the 25th anniversary of the Centre may be considered a landmark of scientific know-how in the control of a possible carcinogen as a new category of environmental risk factors of cancer. With the achievements of today a marked refinement has become feasible in assessing the risk of cancer associated with environmental factors.
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