[Lucy's cancer(s): A prehistorical origin?]

CONCLUSIONS: The fact that there were some malignant tumors, even few tumors and probably underdiagnosed, in the past may be evidence that cancer is not only a disease of the modern world. Cancer may be indeed a moving target: we have likely predisposing genes to cancer inherited from our ancestors. The malignant disease could therefore appear because of our modern lifestyle (carcinogens and risk factors related to the modern industrial society). PMID: 27839715 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Gynecologie Obstetrique Fertilite - Category: OBGYN Tags: Gynecol Obstet Fertil Source Type: research