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Is creeping abandon of human cancer defences evolutionarily favoured?
2022-11-28
Abstract excerpt
Among the animal species on which observations are available, humans have a uniquely high lifetime risk to suffer from cancer - over 38%, compared to less than 10% for all observed other species (except species suffering from environmental pollution). Peto’s paradox shows that this cannot simply be explained by mathematical models which view cancer genesis as a stochastic process, with resulting risks polynomial i...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 52e7bba5-70b1-586b-92da-a4f6d45fbd72
- DOI
- 10.22541/au.166965484.45890608/v1