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T-cells are named for the thymus where T-lymphocytes migrate from bone marrow to mature. Its regression has been linked to a reduction in immunosurveillance and the rise of infectious disease and cancer incidence in the elderly (in some cases risk is inversely proportional to thymus size). Though thymic involution has been linked to immunosenescence, it is not induced by senescence as the organ

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