whales, despite having millions of times the number of individual cells that mice have, don’t seem to get cancer much more often than mice.
Is this all mice, or just lab mice? I ask because of Bret Weinstein’s thing about how lab mice have abnormally long telomeres, which causes them to get cancer a lot more frequently than normal mice (though in googling for the source I also found this counterargument). So is it that whales get cancer less often than we’d expect, or just that mice (or rather, the mice that we observe) get it a lot more frequently?
Is this all mice, or just lab mice? I ask because of Bret Weinstein’s thing about how lab mice have abnormally long telomeres, which causes them to get cancer a lot more frequently than normal mice (though in googling for the source I also found this counterargument). So is it that whales get cancer less often than we’d expect, or just that mice (or rather, the mice that we observe) get it a lot more frequently?