Force feeding the Egyptian toads (Bufo regularis) with gibberellin A₃ (10 ppm) twice a week for 5 months induced neoplasms in 8 out of 50 (16%) experimental animals. Primary tumours developed in the liver (hepatocellular carcinomas). Two secondary tumours in the kidneys and another 2 in the ovaries of toads developed due to metastases from the hepatocellular carcinomas. The results show that gibberellic acid (gibberellin A₃) has a carcinogenic effect in the Egyptian toads.

Injecting adult toads (Bufo regularis) subcutaneously in the dorsal lymph sac with adriamycin at a dose of 2 mg/kg body weight, once every 3 weeks for 20 weeks, induced hepatocellular carcinomas in 20 out of 100 animals. Metastases of the primary liver tumors appeared in the kidneys of 7 toads.