Cancer resistance in elephants

Elephants almost never get cancer. For decades scientists could not understand why elephants don’t have cancer – their remarkable resistance to cancer was a subject of many discussions and publications.
In general, big animals like elephants live longer and their cells have to divide more, so we would expect them to be more susceptible to cancer. But actually it is not the case and this exceptional phenomenon called “Peto’s paradox”.
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