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Well then obviously those people didn't live long enough to get cancer...

• ekianjo 13y ago
  That's not the point. The discovery from that paper is that the researchers did not suspect to find so many young people with micro-tumors. The general trend is that you only get cancer when you reach a certain age, but these results indicated that you may have a dormant cancer that is basically being suppressed in your body for a very long time, and be healthy otherwise. The day the suppressing factors slow down or malfunction, you may get a growing tumor.