Cancer Prevalence Across Vertebrates
Z. T. Compton, W. Mellon, V. Harris, S. Rupp, D. Mallo, S. Kapsetaki, M. Wilmot, R. Kennington, K. Noble, C. Baciu, L. Ramirez, A. Peraza, B. Martins, S. Sudhakar, S. Aksoy, , A. Boddy
The paper analyzes cancer prevalence across 292 vertebrate species and finds that neoplasia prevalence increases with adult weight and mutation rate but decreases with gestation time.
bioRxiv · Feb 15, 2023Cancer Biology