It is more than that. Various mechanisms that safeguard against cancer decline with age (immune system, telomere length, etc). It is most definitely about aging.
Says the World Health Organisation...
https://money.cnn.com/2015/10/26/news/red-meat-processed-cancer-world-health-organization/
You are what you eat!!!
We're working on it...
If we just eliminate colons and old age, cancer will drop by approximately 95%. Get to work society.
ah, the dreams of the everyday transhumanist. . . .
Yep. Can't wait for the AI world government managing the affairs of the immortal post-humans.
oughtta rep you for this, honesty and wit combined.
the reason I can wait well enough is because I realize AI, when it "crosses the line" into self-willed self-sufficient self-replicating jackbooted thugs, they will still be far inferior to even the ordinary politician in terms of the whole spectrum of human values essential to our civilization. . . .
materialism isn't all it's cracked up to me, my friend.
It isn't possible to stop aging in mice currently... That would be an incredible breakthrough. Aging is not "programmed" into us through genetics. It is the result of accumulation of damage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_Engineered_Negligible_Senescence
from that page: