Publication year: 2011 Source: International Journal of Paleopathology, Available online 2 October 2011 Carlos Prates, Sandra Sousa, Carlos Oliveira, Salima Ikram There is great interest in the history and occurrence of human cancer in antiquity and particularly in ancient Egyptian populations. Despite the number of Egyptian mummies and skeletons studied through various means, evidence of primary or metastatic cancer lesions is rare
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Prostate metastatic bone cancer in an Egyptian Ptolemaic mummy, a proposed radiological diagnosis