3,000-year-old skeleton is the earliest human with cancer


British archaeologists have found what they say is the world’s oldest complete example of a human being with metastatic cancer.

Researchers from Durham University and the British Museum discovered the evidence of tumours that had developed and spread throughout the body in a 3,000-year-old skeleton found in a tomb in modern Sudan in 2013.

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