The Study
A lex naturalis delineates components of a human-specific, adrenal androgen-dependent, p53-mediated ‘kill switch’ tumor suppression mechanism
This is like a story someone made up about how cancer might work in humans based on ideas, not real experiments. It can give us ideas to test later, but it doesn't prove anything is true.
Analysis score
Maximum 0 for a editorial/opinion.
Where the score came from
This study guesses that animals have a natural way to keep cancer low, but humans broke it by using fire and getting older.
Where does this study sit?
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Max 58Cross-Sectional & Case Series
Max 50Expert Opinion
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Quality score
Based on clinical experience or non-systematic literature reviews. The lowest level of evidence as they are most susceptible to bias and personal perspective.
Key takeaways
Summary
Based on the study abstract and findings.
- 1Humans might get cancer more often because of changes in their bodies over time.
- 2Animals have 4% cancer risk; humans have 40% cancer risk.
Score breakdown, methodology, conflicts of interest, evidence analysis & raw study data
Publication
Journal
Endocrine-Related Cancer
Year
2019
Authors
J. Nyce
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Claims (3)
Scientists have a theory that animals keep their chance of getting cancer around 4% by balancing things like how big they are, how long they live, and how their bodies fight cancer, but it's just a guess from computer models so far.
Humans might have a special built-in way to fight cancer that uses certain hormones and proteins, which could have developed to protect us from cancer-causing chemicals in the environment, but this idea hasn't been proven yet.
As people get older, their bodies might produce less of certain hormones, and this could make them more likely to get cancer over their lifetime, but scientists haven't proven this yet.
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