Bigger animals live longer and have more cells that could go awry, so we would expect them to have a greater risk of developing cancer. A comprehensive analysis of 263 species suggests this is ...

A longstanding scientific belief about a link between cancer prevalence and animal body size has tested for the first time in our new study ranging across hundreds of animal species. The FDA has ...

Bigger animals consistently show higher prevalence of both benign and malignant tumors. Elephants, giraffes, pythons and other large species have higher cancer rates than smaller ones like mice ...

The findings challenge "Peto's paradox," a longstanding idea based on observations from 1977 that suggested there was no link between an animal's size and its cancer risk. The study, published ...

George Butler receives funding from the Prostate Cancer Foundation and the US Department of Defense CDMRP/PCRP (HT9425-23-1-0157). Joanna Baker does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive ...

Study found that birds and mammals, which reached large sizes faster, have reduced cancer prevalence A longstanding scientific belief about a link between cancer prevalence and animal body size ...