Cancer risk across mammals
@article{Vincze2021CancerRA, title={Cancer risk across mammals}, author={Orsolya Vincze and Fernando Colchero and Jean‐François Lema{\^i}tre and Dalia A. Conde and Samuel Pavard and Margaux Bieuville and Araxi O. Urrutia and Beata Ujvari and Amy M. Boddy and Carlo C. Maley and Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric Thomas and Mathieu Giraudeau}, journal={Nature}, year={2021}, volume={601}, pages={263 - 267} }
Cancer is a ubiquitous disease of metazoans, predicted to disproportionately affect larger, long-lived organisms owing to their greater number of cell divisions, and thus increased probability of somatic mutations 1 , 2 . While elevated cancer risk with larger body size and/or longevity has been documented within species 3 – 5 , Peto’s paradox indicates the apparent lack of such an association among taxa 6 . Yet, unequivocal empirical evidence for Peto’s paradox is lacking, stemming from the…
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