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The Cost of Fame: Strong Biases in Comparative Oncology of Captive Species
2025-09-29
Abstract excerpt
Comparative oncology is a rapidly expanding field that seeks to explain variation in cancer risk across species by examining trends between tumour prevalence and key risk factors such as body mass, longevity, life history traits, and mutation rates. These trends are then used to address fundamental questions in the field, including the discovery of potential novel anti-cancer therapies, improvements to species con...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 7826f473-d3de-5c1b-9da9-bf350b0a8b70
- DOI
- 10.1101/2025.09.25.675237