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carcinogen

substance, radionuclide, or radiation directly involved in causing cancer
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Summary

carcinogen is a risk source[1]. carcinogen draws 4,926 Wikipedia views per month (risk source category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: causes of cancer[3], substance[4], noxa[5]
  • Commons category: Carcinogens[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Carcinogens[7]
  • Topic has template: Template:Carcinogens[8]
  • Has effect: tumor[9], neoplasm[10], carcinogenesis[11]
  • Handled, mitigated, or managed by: safe handling of carcinogens[12], cancer prevention[13]
  • P14541: 2LoP5I[14]

Why It Matters

carcinogen has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] carcinogen is known by 153 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

carcinogenesis

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Medical Subject Headings. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . osha.gov. osha.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . aacr.org. aacr.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9d ago · Chalmd · 2026-10-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 59
    Bbc things id → 489fe035-064c-46ca-99a4-238887904686
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'ban', 'be', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el'
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Bbc things id: 489fe035-064c-46ca-99a4-238887904686, Adding BBC Things ID"
  2. 10w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → carcinogens
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: carcinogens, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289922393|carcinogens (#289922393)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] "
  3. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2LoP5I
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/41251|batch #41251]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic has template → Template:Carcinogens
    Topic's main category → Category:Carcinogens
    Instance of → —
    Handled, mitigated, or managed by → safe handling of carcinogens, cancer prevention
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|11 */ Yso id: 2533, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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