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Why are we more likely to get cancer as we age?

  • Written by Stuart Pitson, NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Cancer Biology, University of South Australia
imageIt's estimated our cells will replicate 10,000 trillion times in our lifetime. Errors in this process can lead to cancer.from www.shutterstock.com.au

This article is part of our series on older people’s health. It looks at the changes and processes that occur in our body as we age, the conditions we’re more likely to suffer from and...

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