If higher cell turnover predicts increased cancer risk, why do children get cancer relatively rarely?
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Not an expert but throwing this information into the mix…the other half of cell turnover is specialization of the cells to perform a function. If you’re growing and the new cells mature into functional cells, that’s good. If you’re creating cells at a high rate and they don’t mature into specialized cells, then they are clogging up the system and using up resources like energy. This is a scenario associated with cancer. They are called undifferentiated cells. Again, just filling in a piece that I know from patho. Not a doctor.
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