Peto's paradox

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  1. The observation that at the species level, the incidence of cancer does not appear to correlate with the number of cells in an organism.
    — Peto's paradox has the clear implication that somehow longer-lived species are better protected from cancer than shorter-lived ones and, likewise, bigger species are better protected than smaller ones.

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After Richard Peto.
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