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Size, longevity and cancer: age structure

There is significant recent interest in Peto's paradox and the related problem of the evolution of large, long-lived organisms in terms of cancer robustness. Peto's paradox refers to the expectation that large, long-lived organisms have a higher lifetime cancer risk, which is not the case:...

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Autor principal: Wensink, Maarten J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5031666/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27629030
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1510