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What can a 1.7-million-year-old hominid fossil teach us about cancer?

  • Written by Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
imageVolume rendered image of the external morphology of the foot bone shows the extent of expansion of the primary bone cancer beyond the surface of the bone.Patrick Randolph-Quinney (UCLAN)

In late July, an international team of researchers announced that they had identified evidence of cancer in the fossilized remains of a biological relative of...

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