An internationally collaborated study revealed a decreased risk of cancer among children whose parents lived beyond average life spans
In a study led by University of Exeter Medical School researchers, supported by the National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care in the South West Peninsula as well as researchers from the National Institute for Health and Medical Research in France, the University of Michigan, and the University of Iowa, a comparison of children born to parents with long life spans to children of parents who lived average life spans revealed that cancer risk decreased by 24% among children with a long-living parent.
Study results are published in the Journals of Gerontology: Series A.
Source: University of Exeter.