Researchers find cancer in ancient Egyptian mummy

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Indications are disease was caused by genetics, not environment

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

The genetics-environment question is key to understanding cancer.

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

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

More: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46182371

[izquierdista]

1. I hope it's not too late for treatment

Most can be cured if you catch them early!

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3. The hard part is knowing which cases should be treated early,

and which shouldn't be treated at all!

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2. " not necessarily only linked to industrial factors" is not the same as

never linked to industrial factors! From what I've read, there's a strong connection to Vitamin D deficiency in some cases, which makes finding the disease in a young Eqyptian odd.