title: Actual new cancer-causing hydrazines, hydrazides, and hydrazones.
abstract: Twenty actual new cancer-causing hydrazines, hydrazides, and hydrazones of synthetic or natural origin are described. These compounds induce tumors in various target tissues in mice, hamsters and rats. To nine of these compounds the human population is exposed in the form of drugs, agricultural herbicides, and naturally occurring ingredients of edible mushrooms. Yet, with one exception, none of the hydrazines described here were investigated for cancer-inducing abilities in man. The human population should be warned against the use of this hazardous class of chemicals, the total number of which is now 40.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006224:Cricetinae; D006834:Hydrazines / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006835:Hydrazones / Q000009:adverse effects*; D051379:Mice; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000139:chemically induced*; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D006834:Hydrazines; D006835:Hydrazones