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Paradox-Busting Study Finds Bigger Animals Really Are at Greater Risk of Cancer


Despite decades of research, scientists were still trying to figure out why rates of malignant cancer do not appear to increase with an animal species' size – a paradox first proposed in 1977 by Richard Peto.

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