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Quoting wiki [0]:

"Peto's paradox is the observation that, at the species level, the incidence of cancer does not appear to correlate with the number of cells in an organism. For example, the incidence of cancer in humans is much higher than the incidence of cancer in whales, despite whales having more cells than humans. If the probability of carcinogenesis were constant across cells, one would expect whales to have a higher incidence of cancer than humans. Peto's paradox is named after English statistician and epidemiologist Richard Peto, who first observed the connection."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peto%27s_paradox




Quoting a bit more topically from the same article:

>Within members of the same species, cancer risk and body size appear to be positively correlated, even once other risk factors are controlled for.




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