[bluthru]

Muscle mass is a good thing: https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/muscle-ma...

More height means you have more cells that could potentially become cancerous.

[qb45]

> More height means you have more cells that could potentially become cancerous.

Wow, no shit:

http://www.wcrf.org/int/blog/articles/2015/09/why-taller-peo...

Not exactly the mechanism you proposed, but still...