Humans have been waging war against cancer longer than assumed, new research suggests.
Their findings werepublishedWednesday in the journal Frontiers in Medicine.
It took a bit to realize we were visualizing the evidence of a milestone in the history of medicine.
The left image shows several of the metastatic lesions found on skull 236, along with suspected cutmarks. The top right image shows skull 250, while the bottom right shows skull 236.Image: Tondini, Isidro, Camarós/Frontiers
So its possible that this woman may have been involved in some kind of warfare in the area.
Our aim is to complete the biography of cancer from the very beginning of human history.
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