Why does not an elephant get cancer? Science solves the mystery

Scientists have been busy for years trying to figure out why some animals did not get cancer, such as elephants and whales.

With multiple hypotheses that huge animal sizes protect them from the causes of cancer, an American scientist has found a unique gene in elephants that protects them from malignant disease.

In 2012, a scientist named Vincent Lynch decided to examine African elephant genes to see if he had additional cancer-fighting genes.

Crabs occur when a DNA gene mutates, allowing cells to grow and reproduce in a harmful and out of control manner.
Scientists believe that larger animals are made up of more cells, so cancer genes need more time to be fatal with large animals.
Since then scientists have made dozens of hypotheses to see why cancer is not attacked by elephants. Perhaps the most common answer is that large animals have more anti-cancer defenses, until scientists have finally solved the mystery, and it is not dependent on size at all.

The elephants have a gene that works to revive another destructive gene and assign them to kill cancer cells, the same as in other animals, including bats.

The life-saving gene, known as LIF6, targets cells that are about to turn into cancerous tumors and destroy them.
Through experiments, researchers found that when elephants begin to be exposed to cancer-causing damage, the tumors gradually decrease by activating the life-saving defense system, the LIF6 gene.

Scientists hope to find drugs that mimic the effect of the cancer-resistant gene and develop new revolutionary treatments for future cancer patients.