Researchers find cancer in ancient Egyptian mummy
Photo credit: AP | A mummy with oldest case of prostate cancer in ancient Egypt. (Jan. 30, 2012)
A professor from American University in Cairo says discovery of prostate cancer in a 2,200-year-old mummy indicates the disease was caused by genetics, not environment.
The genetics-environment question is key to understanding cancer.
AUC professor Salima Ikram, a member of the team that studied the mummy in Portugal for two years, said Sunday the mummy was of a man who died in his forties.
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