With a Thousand Times More Cells Than Humans, Why Don't Whales Get Cancer More?

If you are a US citizen, according to the US government's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Program data from 2010-2012, there is approximately a 40 percent chance that you can expect to be diagnosed with some form of cancer in your lifetime. As a citizen of the US myself, I don't like those odds--and neither do a lot of scientists, although for reasons that have more to do with statistics than a fear of death. To put it simply, for creatures of our size, such a high rate of cancer inci...