Solutions to Peto's paradox revealed by mathematical modelling and cross-species cancer gene analysis
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Whales have 1000-fold more cells than humans and mice have 1000-fold fewer; however, cancer risk across species does not increase with the number of somatic cells and the lifespan of the organism. This observation is known as Peto's paradox. How much ...