The researchers in South Africa have discovered the most ancient proof of cancer in the fossil remains of a hominin or bipedal human relative who lived around 1.7 million years ago. This evidence has overturned the 'conventional perception' that cancer is a modern disease.The researchers say that the finding of a foot bone from the site of Swartkrans, which is located near Johannesburg, with complete and accurate evidence of cancer, drives the oldest date for this disease back from modern times ...
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