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massive_bereavement@fedia.io 1 week agoIirc 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
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 1 week 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.