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		ggrothendieck on July 5, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Elephants Avoid Cancer (2015) You don't necesssarily need to know the rates. "If blue whales got 1,000 times more cancer than humans, they would likely die before they were able to reproduce and the species would quickly go extinct" yet the species does exist. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3060950/

pmiller2 on July 5, 2017 [–]

Sure, but such reasoning only puts rather gross bounds on the possible rates of cancer.

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