1.7 million-year-old foot bone offers earliest evidence of malignant cancer

Thursday, July 28, 2016 - 09:31 in Biology & Nature

Brooks HaysJOHANNESBURG, South Africa, July 28 (UPI) -- Scientists have discovered a 1.7-million-year-old foot bone with a malignant tumor -- the oldest evidence of cancer yet discovered by scientists.

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