British archaeologists have found what they say is the world’s oldest complete example of a human being with metastatic cancer and hope it will offer new clues about the now common and often fatal disease. Researchers from [b]Durham University[/b] and the [b]British Museum[/b] discovered the evidence of tumours that had developed and spread throughout the body in a 3 000-year-old skeleton found in a tomb in modern Sudan in 2013. Ancient DNA analysis of skeletons and mummies with evidence of cancer can be used to detect mutations in specific genes that are known to be associated with particular types of cancer.
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