World’s Oldest Cancer Found in Bone of 120,000 Year-Old Neanderthal

[avaistheone1]

Source: International Business Times

The world's oldest known human tumour has been found in the rib bone of a Neanderthal who lived more than 120,000 years ago.

The bone was evacuated from a site in Krapina, Croatia more than 100 years ago and has been found to have contracted the fibrous dysplasia tumour, a cancer which is common among modern-day humans.

This discovery by David Frayer from the University of Kansas predates previous evidence of the tumour by more than 100,000 years.

Before this discovery, the earliest bone tumour was seen in an Egyptian mummy around 2,000 years ago.




Read more: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/475461/20130606/oldest-cancer-tumour-neanderthal-bone-120000-years.htm

[Botany]

1. Well sure I hope that he gets the medical help he needs from a Croatian doctor.

[zonkers]

7. Spelling cop says... "Evacuated" ? I think the word is "excavated"

[Kingofalldems]

2. The earth is only 6,000 years old

Satan put it there.

[sdfernando]

3. I have something in common with this Neanderthal

I too had a fibrous Dysplasia tumor, only in my skull, not rib. Had to have it removed and now have a titanium mesh covering the hole.

[Archae]

4. But...but...natural foods prevent cancer!

Well, that's what the woo advocates claim.

Funny, remember that guy that was found in a thawing glacier, the "Iceman?"

Seems he had hardening of the arteries.

I guess natural foods didn't help him much either.

[dbackjon]

6. It was the nuclear reactor that Urgh built that caused it.

[snooper2]

13. The dude just shouldn't have gotten his vaccines

He would probably still be alive today

[NickB79]

5. Probably ate too much GMO mammoth

Fucking Monsanto!

[Botany]

8. DUzy!

[Codeine]

9. And so many woowoobirds in the "alternative medicine" movement

have told me that cancer is a modern disease created by our "toxic environment."

[The Straight Story]

10. Bet he got it from smoking in a bar (nt)

[RobinA]

11. Not Necessarily ...

He could have gotten it walking past someone who was smoking.

[Yo_Mama]

15. Sedentary living

He spent too much time in a chair, posting on an internet forum!!!!

[Socal31]

12. I thought I was clicking on a Rush Limbaugh thread.

Although after seeing the horrors of that awful disease, I can't wish in on anyone.

[Yo_Mama]

14. So much for the Paleo diet

It's amazing how often we find ourselves collectively able to believe in what we want to believe.

The other bullshit meme that's fallen in the face of evidence is that blockage of the arteries is purely a disease of modern life. Turns out it is not.

[dipsydoodle]

16. What comes of barbecuing food I guess.

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