Extreme age protects against cancer in mouse study

Old laboratory mice develop substantially fewer and less-aggressive lung tumors than younger animals in a new study led by Stanford University researchers. The discovery flies in the face of established dogma that holds that cancer risk increases with age, but it dovetails with what’s seen in very elderly people, in whom cancer risk appears to either level off or even decline with age.

This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com

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