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Cancer and longevity--is there a trade-off? A study of cooccurrence in Danish twin pairs born 1900-1918.

The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences - 1 May 2012

Christensen Kaare, Pedersen Jacob K, Hjelmborg Jacob V B, Vaupel James W, Stevnsner Tinna, Holm Niels V, Skytthe Axel

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BACKGROUND: Animal models and a few human studies have suggested a complex interaction between cancer risk and longevity indicating a trade-off where low cancer risk is associated with accelerating aging phenotypes and, vice versa, that longevity potential comes with the cost of increased cancer...

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PMID: 22472962
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/gls087
PMCID: PMC3326241

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