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Season 10 Episode 2 | 9m 42s
| Video has closed captioning.
Why do whales, elephants, and other large animals not get cancer? Logically, the larger an animal is, and the longer it lives, the more likely it should be to get cancer. But these giants don’t. Why is that? And can the answer help humanity?
