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New Study Challenges Long-Held Assumptions About Cancer and Aging

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New Study Challenges Long-Held Assumptions About Cancer and Aging
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Cancer research may be overlooking a crucial variable: age. Cancer becomes more common with age and is often harder to treat in older adults. Yet most lab studies still rely on young mice, roughly equivalent to humans in their early 20s. Fewer than 10% of experiments include aged animals. This mismatch may be one reason [...]

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