Ability of any substance, radionuclide or radiation, to cause cancer. This may be due to the ability to damage the genome or to the disruption of cellular metabolic processes.
The IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) published the classification of possible carcinogens into 5 groups (G1, G2A, G2B, G3 and G4).

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