The Evolution of Carcinogenesis

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The recent discovery that an osteosarcoma was found in a 1.7-million-year old bone from a hominin in South Africa (Odes et al. 2016) suggests that cancer has been a disease that has afflicted the human species for thousands of generations. This view is also supported by a number of other reports suggesting the presence of this disease including multiple myeloma, prostate and breast cancer in humans between 230...