• Question: Who was the first person to ever suffer from cancer?

    Asked by bubblepop123 to Claire, Liad, Ruth, Ryan, Mako on 18 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Ruth Elderfield

      Ruth Elderfield answered on 18 Jun 2015:


      They have found evidence of cancer in 3000 BC in Egyptian Mummies and descriptions of the disease on papyrus scrolls.
      But as cancers are a natural process, a mistake, so cells don’t stop dividing, it is likely that it existed before humans even evolved into being.

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