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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Jun 19.
Published in final edited form as: Food Chem Toxicol. 2009 Oct 3;48(1):169–177. doi: 10.1016/j.fct.2009.09.034

Table 5.

Incidence of Neoplasms exhibiting significant change in mice

Effect Vehicle Control 2.5 mg/kg 12.5 mg/kg 25 mg/kg
Male
Small Intestine, Carcinomaa 0/50 (0%)$ 1/50(2%) 2/50 (4%) 4/50 (8%)
Small Intestine, Adenoma or Carcinomab 1/50 (2%)$ 2/50 (4%) 4/50 (8%) 6/50 (12%)
Alveolar/bronchiolar Carcinoma (includes multiple)c 1/50 (2%)$ 4/50 (8%) 5/50 (10%) 7/50 (14%)*
Female
Alveolar/bronchiolar Carcinoma (includes multiple) 5/50 (10%) 0/50 (0%)* 0/50 (0%)* 1/50 (2%)
Malignant lymphomad 6/50(4%)$ 2/50(8%) 9/50 (18%) 12/50 (24%)
*

Significantly different (P≤0.05) from vehicle control by the Poly−3 test

**

(P≤0.01)

$

Significant by Poly−3 trend test (P≤0.05)

a

Historical incidence for 2−year studies, all routes, all vehicles (mean ± standard deviation): 33/1,508 (2.2% ± 2.7%), range 0%−10%

b

Historical incidence: 39/1,508 (2.6% ± 2.8%), range 0%−10%

c

Historical incidence: 151/1,507 (9.9% ± 5.0%), range 4%−24%

d

Historical incidence: 308/1,508 (19.7% ± 13.3%), range 6%−58%