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Cancer is not only a disease of civilisation or modern times. It was known to the ancients, and tumours have been seen in the bodies of Egyptian mummies which were embalmed four thousand years ago. Tumours occur in animals and bone cancers have been observed in fossils of animals which lived a hundred million years ago. At one time such tumours might have been considered as spontaneous, but we now consider that they could have been induced by external factors. Bone tumours seen in fossil dinosaurs, for example, may have been caused by local concentration of radioactive material, such as strontium from the environment.
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Boyland, E. (1968). The Causes of Cancer. In: Lettré, H., Wagner, G. (eds) Aktuelle Probleme aus dem Gebiet der Cancerologie II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85519-1_1
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