Surprisingly, it turns out that excessively long telomeres are also bad for you. In one large study of more than twenty-six thousand people, overall cancer risk increased by 37 percent with doubled telomere length. And some cancers were more impacted than others. For people with the longest telomeres, lung cancer risk increased by 90 percent, breast cancer by 48 percent, prostate cancer by 32 percent, and colorectal cancer by 35 percent. The most troubling effect was a more than doubling of the risk for pancreatic cancer.
excessively long telomeres are tied to higher risks of various desises. This is similar tot he step function mentioned previously.
