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Scientists find earliest case of human cancer in man who died 4,500 years ago

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The earliest known case of cancer has been recognized in the skeleton of a Siberian Bronze Age man. The 4,500-year-old bones have important marks and holes, alerting researchers to the devastating lung or prostate cancer that the ancient man had endured. This new proof of the illness in ancient bones demonstrates that cancer is not […]