Cancer in ancient Egypt: A disease beyond time
Gerrit zur Hausen explains the difficulties of studying cancer in ancient populations, and how such research may help in our fight against the disease today.
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Old Kingdom cancer treatment
A skull dating to the Old Kingdom bears evidence that might indicate an attempt to treat cancer, according to new research published by Tatiana Tondini, Albert Isidro, and Edgard Camarós in Frontiers in Medicine. Analysis of the skull, from the…
Calculating cancer risk in medieval Cambridge
Through radiographs and computed tomography (CT) scanning of human skeletons, cancerous lesions can be accurately identified...