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How can radiation exposure and uv light cause cancer?
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Break dna: Knock off a base (atgc -base pairs), cause a strand break, and most lethally, cause a double strand break. We have repair enzymes, but mis-repair can cause a wrong base to be inserted, or deletion of important information leading to cancer development or promotion.
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