Study of Ancient Egyptians Reveals Cancer is an Entirely Man-Made Disease
It’s no surprise to anyone that cancer rates have skyrocketed in the last century. Cancer is now the second-highest leading causes of death in the United States, being less than 25,000 deaths a year behind heart disease. Although cancer rates continue to rise, many people attribute this to an increased lifespan in general.
However, new research has shown that there is a good chance that cancer is a disease that has been caused by the “progress” made by humankind during the industrial revolution, and that it is not, in fact, due to people living longer.
Cancer in Antiquity
Researchers at Manchester’s KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology conducted a vast search for evidence of cancer in both the remains of Egyptian mummies and medical literature from ancient Egypt.
The researchers found very few references to cancer in all of the medical literature that they reviewed, and in the examination of hundreds of Egyptian mummies they only found one case of cancer.
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Every Day is Earth Day
Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2016/05/study-of-ancient-egyptians-reveals.html
