Researchers at the University of Manchester think that cancer may be a man made disease. They base this opinion on their study of Egyptian mummies. They reported that they only found cancer in a very small portion of the hundreds of mummies that were examined.
This may be a study that borders on the simplistic, but there may be an important truth discovered here. But the researchers did histological studies of the mummies, and also did literary research to see if there was evidence of high rates of cancer. They found that cancer was very uncommon in animals, non-human primates and early human remains. It was also rare in fossils. They also found that even when they found tumors, the vast majority of them were benign. And when they found malignant tumors, the few that were found were in non-human primates. continue reading…