[Correspondence] Cancer in two Renaissance families

We have read the criticism of Philippe Charlier and colleagues1 regarding our letter about the presence of cancer at the Aragonese court of Naples,2 but we disagree with their conclusions. First, our brief report exclusively regarded the cases of malignant soft tissue tumours diagnosed by histology,3 which cannot be found in skeletons, and therefore we have not considered all bone cancer cases present in the literature. The number of soft tissue malignancies is still five, because the mentioned case of metastatic carcinoma in an Egyptian mummy was diagnosed only by CT,4 without histology.

Source: The Lancet Oncology - February 1, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Gino Fornaciari, Valentina Giuffra Raffaele Gaeta Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research