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inglor_cztoday at 9:18 AM0 repliesview on HN

" Cancer is a property of all multicellular life."

In practice, though, some species are way less prone to cancer than others. Orders of magnitude of a difference, even in mammals. Bats, notoriously. Or naked mole rats. On the other hand, mice get cancer fairly reliably.

Which means that there are biologically realistic way how to keep the danger at bay, and they seem to involve the immune system.