Mummy Has Oldest Case of Prostate Cancer in Ancient Egypt

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Mummy Has Oldest Case of Prostate Cancer in Ancient Egypt

ScienceNOW Daily News [uSA], 26 October 2011

Some 2250 years ago in Egypt, a man known today only as M1 struggled

with a long, painful, progressive illness. A dull pain throbbed in his

lower back, then spread to other parts of his body, making most

movements a misery. When M1 finally succumbed to the mysterious ailment

between the ages of 51 and 60, his family paid for him to be mummified

so that he could be reborn and relish the pleasures of the afterworld.

Now an international research team has diagnosed what ailed M1: the

oldest known case of prostate cancer in ancient Egypt and the second

oldest case in the world. (The earliest diagnosis of prostate cancer

came from the 2700-year-old skeleton of a Scythian king in Russia.)

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