Comment on Immortals must be riddled with cancer thanks to gene errors in their dna replication.

cymor@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• massive_bereavement@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Iirc elephants too. Megafauna is either very good fighting cancers, living with them (no metastization) or completely immune to it. That's called Peto's paradox, though recently, there was a study that claimed cancer rates are higher than we thought: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/feb/bigger-animals-get-more-cancer-defying-decades-old-belief

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  • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I wonder if it just takes longer to become a problem? I would expect (and someone correct me if I’m wrong) that a tumor likely grows at roughly the same rate regardless of body size. A 3cm diameter tumor likely just isn’t as big of a deal when you mass 100,000kg.

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• ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And bats!

  urmc.rochester.edu/…/why-dont-bats-get-cancer

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  • VivianRixia@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    aren't bats like immune to a ton of diseases. which is what makes them dangerous as they are carriers.

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