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Among this group of 143 individuals, five showed signs of interior bone damage caused by cancer. This means 3.5 percent of the men and women in the sample population were suffering from serious forms of cancer at the times of their deaths, with the cancer presumably contributing heavily to those casualties. All of the individuals who’d had cancer had been middle aged or older when they met their demise. Past studies have only looked for exterior lesions on recovered bones. This explains why their estimates of medieval cancer rates were so low in comparison to these new findings. “Only some cancer spreads to bone, and of these only a few are visible on its surface, so we searched within the bone for signs of malignancy,” explained the study’s lead researcher, Dr. Piers Mitchell , who is the Director of the Ancient Parasites Laboratory in the University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology.

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