Innovative Thinking for the Real World | University of ...

Within the human lineage, the oldest evidence of neoplastic disease found in the hominin fossil record is fibrous dysplasia (a benign but still serious, bone tumour) in a rib fragment of a 120,000-year-old Neandertal from Krapina, Croatia. The earliest description of a tumour in modern human bone was from a 3000-year-old Egyptian mummy from Egypt. ................
................