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> The results suggest an evolutionary relationship between animal size and tumor suppression My napkin formula would be p_tumor_body=(V_body/V_cell)*p_tumor_ce
by _0ffh 4y ago
> The results suggest an evolutionary relationship between animal size and tumor suppression
My napkin formula would be p_tumor_body=(V_body/V_cell)*p_tumor_cell, so your statment makes intuitive sense, I'd say. The more cells you have, the more tumor suppression you need to make it a secondary cause of death over your expected life span.
- abstrakraft 4y agoThat expression leads to something that isn't a probability. Try 1-(1-p_tumor_cell)^(V_body/V_cell).
- _0ffh 4y agoI shouldn't comment on HN from bed after an evening out. Of course the rule of proportion is the wrong approach here. Even though the dimensional analysis seems to work out, it's still wrong. Bad case of thoroughly addled brain, this is supremely embarassing, and too late to delete now. I should be able to do this in my sleep, but I clearly wasn't. Seems there's not enough probabilities in my day-to-day, I will make a point of adding a few to fix my intuitions.