I thought cancer risk increases with higher body mass.. so why are the largest creatures alive like blue whales not covered in tumors?
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Some largest animals on Earth have cancer-supressing genes, for example I believe that elephants and rhinos have them. Whales also have similar genes and top of that the way cell-replication process works is bit different to that of humans, so they are much less likely to develop cancer that way.
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