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Cancer in the court: CT scans identify lesions in medieval Brits - BBC Science Focus Magazine


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Past studies had indicated that the disease affected less than 1 per cent of the population in an age before cigarettes and polluting chemicals from industry, and with shorter life expectancies giving cancer less time to develop.
However, a Cambridge University study which used X-rays and CT scans for the first time has suggested that, from the 6th to the 16th Century, between 9 and 14 per cent of the population died with cancer.
“The majority of cancers form in soft tissue organs long since degraded in medieval remains,” explained lead author Dr Piers Mitchell, of Cambridge’s Department of Archaeology. ....

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