A recent study of mummified remains and literature from ancient Egypt and Greece and earlier periods carried out at Manchester’s KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology and published in Nature Reviews Cancer suggests that cancer was a rarity in the ancient world. The study which involved the physical examination of hundreds of mummified remains, and a review of the medical literature of the day found almost no incidence of cancer. The study does include the first histological diagnosis of cancer in an Egyptian mummy. The disease rate has risen massively since the Industrial Revolution.
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