New research shows bigger animals get more cancer, defying decades-old belief

By Joanna Baker, Postdoctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Biology, University of Reading
George Butler, Career Development Fellow in Cancer Evolution, UCL

A longstanding scientific belief about a link between cancer prevalence and animal body size has tested for the first time in our new study ranging across hundreds of animal species.

If larger animals have more cells, and cancer comes from cells going rogue, then the largest animals on earth – like elephants and whales – should be riddled with tumours. Yet, for…

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