When excavated a burial hill in the Russian region of Tuva, about ten years ago, archaeologists found gold literally. Curled on the floor of an inner room there were two skeletons, a man and a woman, surrounded by real costumes 27 centuries ago: headdresses and robes adorned with golden images of horses, panthers and other sacred animals. But for paleopathologists - scholars of old diseases - the richest treasure was the abundance of virtually all tumors in the bones of the male body. The diagnosis: the case of prostate cancer oldest ever heard. Often regarded as a modern disease, cancer has always been with us. Is where scientists disagree about how much he was amplified by the sweet and bitter fruits of civilization. Over the decades, archaeologists discovered about 200 possible cases of cancer dating back to prehistoric times. "There is no reason to think that cancer is a new disease," said Robert A. Weinberg, a cancer researcher at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and author of the textbook "Biology of Cancer". "In times past, the disease was less common because people ended up dying early for other reasons."
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