Submitted by MeronDC t3_10l96j0 in Futurology
Impossible_You_8555 t1_j608u1z wrote
Reply to comment by moehassan6832 in Which medical specialty will deal with immortality? by MeronDC
I'm not saying it would mean end of life
Two things
What allows increased life span things like telemore extensions, cellular repair also increase often cancer risks, essentially what often limits cellular repair, regeneration often limits cancer
We all have latent cancer but sometimes something us kills us first. Mice get cancer in such high rates in old age because essentially natural selection in the wild made it so most didn't live past a certain time, so cancer in old mouse age wasn't selected against, again with humans, extreme old age will mean certain cancers might show up at 130 that we wouldn't see without
moehassan6832 t1_j6091co wrote
Makes sense, thanks.
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