{"id":18352,"date":"2015-10-12T08:47:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T15:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/what-protects-elephants-from-cancer"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:28:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:28:36","slug":"what-protects-elephants-from-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/what-protects-elephants-from-cancer","title":{"rendered":"What Protects Elephants From Cancer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-protects-elephants-from-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elephants are long-lived, and rather large. Given their size and longevity, scientists have pondered what protects them from cancer for a long time. Thanks to new research, we now know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A mystery unlocked<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cancer is a big problem. A staggering 1 in 2 people born after 1960 in the UK are predicted to develop cancer at some point in their lifetime. We may be living longer, but the extra years are coming with a raised cancer risk. We may be getting better at treatment, but we\u2019re still finding out exactly what causes it, and how we can prevent it from being a danger altogether.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longevityreporter.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/10\/what-protects-elephants-from-cancer-now-we-know\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elephants are long-lived, and rather large. Given their size and longevity, scientists have pondered what protects them from cancer for a long time. Thanks to new research, we now know. A mystery unlocked Cancer is a big problem. A staggering 1 in 2 people born after 1960 in the UK are predicted to develop cancer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56733,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18352\/revisions\/56733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}