Giant whales have little cancer relative to their body size.
, which describes how large, long-lived animals, despite having trillions more cells than humans or tiny critters, don't develop more cancers.
But renowned British statistician Richard Peto noticed when comparing mice and men in the late 1970s that this wasn't the case.showed that across creatures great and small, cancer doesn't become more common the more cells a species has. Elephants, like whales, don't have a ton of cancers.
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