Are most cancer cases a consequence of an immune deficiency caused by thymic involution? [Biological Sciences]

In a recent article in PNAS, Palmer et al. (1) challenge the accepted idea that cancer is the result of the multistep accumulation of DNA changes. According to the established paradigm, cancer incidence increases dramatically with age because the cell that gives rise to cancer needs time to acquire the...

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