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... Relative risk estimates based on overly conservative assumptions may not distinguish important differences between risk. For example, an increase in benign liver tumors and a corresponding decrease in leukemias and mammary-gland fibroadenomas have been observed in response to test chemicals in the Fischer 344 rat (Haseman, 19831.
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