Growing old can rob a person of hair, strength, agility, clear vision, and mental sharpness. It also raises one’s chance of getting cancer. Cancer rates go up exponentially in the final decades of life.
“Age is the most important of all carcinogens,” notes Ronald A. DePinho of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
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