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Peto’s paradox’s relevance is off the scale

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Figure 1. Cancer incidence plotted against total somatic cell count (C) of an organism for difference p (chance) of malignancy per cell. Calculation of cancer incidence is the chance of at least one cell becoming malignant: Pmaligancy = 1-(1-p)C.