Of Mice and Men and Elephants: Does Size Determine Our Cancer Risk?

In his blog this week, IMF Chairman Dr. Brian Durie discusses a recent story in the New York Times about the paradox of mammal size and cancer risk. Oncologists at the University of Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute and evolutionary biologists at the University of Chicago have published a study that examines the uncanny ability of our largest mammals, elephants, to fight cancer.
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