Monday, January 30, 2012

Researchers discover cancer in Egyptian mummy

? A professor from American University in Cairo said the discovery of prostate cancer in a 2,200-year-old mummy indicates the disease was caused by genetics, not environment.

AUC professor Salima Ikram, a member of the team that studied the mummy in Portugal for two years, said Sunday the mummy was a man who died in his forties.

She said this was the second oldest known case of prostate cancer.

?Living conditions in ancient times were very different; there were no pollutants or modified foods, which leads us to believe that the disease is not necessarily only linked to industrial factors,? she said.

A statement from AUC said the oldest known case came from a 2,700-year-old skeleton of a king in Russia.

Source: http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2012/jan/29/researchers-discover-cancer-egyptian-mummy/

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