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MULTIPLE REPLICATIONS
suppress cancer. Senescence makes the cell stop
replicating when its telomeres become too short,
or when the cell cannot repair other damage to its
DNA. Thus, senescence prevents severely damaged
cells from producing abnormal and perhaps cancer-