Researchers find cancer in Egyptian mummy
Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 16:00
in Health & Medicine
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.
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