English Explanatory Dictionary

Peto's paradox

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. The observation that at the species level, the incidence of cancer does not appear to correlate with the number of cells in an organism.

Word forms

Peto's paradox

Etymology

After Richard Peto.

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