By examining an Egyptian skull from 4,500 years ago, an archeologist and his team apparently have "changed the previously understood timeline of when humans may have tried to treat cancer."
A story by Ben Brasch in editions of The Washington Post a while back quotes archeologist Edgard Camarós, PhD professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, as saying "it was clear that we were looking at a milestone in the history of medicine. That was one of those eureka moments."
Camarós and his team maintain that they've "found proof that moves forward our under landing of when humans treat to treat cancer by 1,000 years."
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| Edgard Camarós |
The team recently published a report in the Frontiers in Medicine journal explaining how they used new camera-and-screen technology and how the markings they found indicate that ancient scientists were trying to remove cancer from a skull.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cancer was the second-leading cause of death in the United States in 2022.
More information linking research and diseases can be found in Rollercoaster: How a man can survive his partner's breast cancer, a VitalityPress book that I, Woody Weingarten, aimed at caregivers.
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