This is my notion of the definition of carcinogenic: "a substance capable of causing cancer in living tissue."
I don't know what AGE stands for (even after googling it).
Causing cancer requires DNA mal-scription, or RNA (as I understand). Essentially something goes awry that's the information for designation, and will signal for more production endlessly.
Pre-cancerous things differently in that they make the potential greater, but don't explicitly have any affect on DNA/RNA, or signalling. For example AGE's may either provider cancer cells with an attachable site, influence a system that prohibits cancer, block a system that works against cancer, or provide something for metabolism in replication. I'm not sure anyone knows at this point. But it's not a carcinogen per say. There's just a prevelance of it with cancer.
In mice they've discovered cancer will break off and float around, sometimes for awhile, before it runs into a site where it sticks and continues its activity. As far as I know it's not clear what makes it stay at a site, but perhaps AGE's are a possibility as they don't easily scrub out of the body.
AGE stands for advanced glycation end product. Yes, you have more s you age,
. Smoking directly increases them. They have an affect on cellular reception, organs, skin, etc.
From person to person the tolerance for types of AGE sources and affect vary. Slow acytaltion doesn't appear to have problems from AGE dietary affects from red meat, but in a fast person they can be devastating. The same is partially true in reverse too, with some things, but it's not nearly as significant as far as I'm aware.