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The trick is to make regeneration fast enough to heal the wound without making fast enough to cause cancer. Maybe even supported by provisional fibrosis.

Does that mean zebra fish with their ability to regrow the retina get cancer at a higher rate?

90 day life cycle. Rare for them to live over a year in the wild.

Whoa, sounds like your recommending some sort of healing mechanism like those human animals have

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