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What?! Please don't call cell senescence "aging". Our cells do destroy themselves and replenish from stem cells but the accumulated damage called "aging" causes cancer.

If you age, you get cancer, eventually. Sometimes some other pathology gets you first but everyone is afflicted with every "aging disease" but we seem to only care about which one kills you first.




Senescence (/sɪˈnɛsəns/) (from Latin: senescere, meaning "to grow old," from senex) or biological aging (also spelled biological ageing).

One of the reasons cells age is to not get cancer. The cells that age can still get cancer! And probably more likely to get cancer than young cells. But less likely than if they didn't go into senescence at all.




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