{"id":75815,"date":"2018-02-08T08:22:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T16:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/cancer-risk-rises-as-the-thymus-shrinks"},"modified":"2018-02-08T08:22:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T16:22:33","slug":"cancer-risk-rises-as-the-thymus-shrinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/cancer-risk-rises-as-the-thymus-shrinks","title":{"rendered":"Cancer Risk Rises as The Thymus Shrinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cancer-risk-rises-as-the-thymus-shrinks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We wanted to bring your attention to an open-access <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2018\/01\/30\/1714478115\">publication<\/a> in which the researchers suggest that the age-related decline of the thymus is more important than DNA mutation as a cancer risk factor[1].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Repairing the damage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As we have discussed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/genomic-instability\/\">this<\/a> article, cancer is caused by DNA damage that creates mutations. Damage to our DNA happens all the time, and we have various repair systems in place for it.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/cancer-risk-rises-as-the-thymus-shrinks\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/cancer-risk-rises-as-the-thymus-shrinks\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wanted to bring your attention to an open-access publication in which the researchers suggest that the age-related decline of the thymus is more important than DNA mutation as a cancer risk factor[1]. Repairing the damage As we have discussed in this article, cancer is caused by DNA damage that creates mutations. Damage to our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75815","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\/75815","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}