Lower Cancer Rates for Kids with Longer Lived Parents

Cutting-edge study led by Exeter University Medical School reveals that children with longer-lived parents are less likely to get cancer. Research revealed that the offspring of long-lived parents are likely […]


Cutting-edge study led by Exeter University Medical School reveals that children with longer-lived parents are less likely to get cancer.

Research revealed that the offspring of long-lived parents are likely to

  • live longer themselves
  • are less prone to various age-related diseases,
  • are 24% less likely to develop cancer

Mothers who lived beyond 91 and fathers past the age of 87 were classified as long-lived. The average age for mothers was 77-91, while the average father lived to 65-87 years.

People whose mothers were older than 85 had a 40% lower mortality rate, while those whose fathers lived beyond this age had a 14% lower mortality rate.

The scientists studied the data of 9,764 American participants who were between 1992 and 2010 in a series of interviews concerning the ages of their parents when they died.

The study also involved a team of experts from National Institute for Health and Medical Research in France and the University of Iowa.