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The oldest oncological intervention
Nagore Irazustabarrena Uranga @irazustabarrena 2024ko ekainaren 07a
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Two years ago, the Catalan archaeologist Edgard CamarĂ³s, two human skulls and Cancer? He found a motif card inside a cardboard box at Cambridge University. Skulls were coming from Giga, from Egypt, and he recently published in the journal Frontiers in Medicine, his team has confirmed that both individuals were suffering from cancer.

It is one of the oldest cancers known; the oldest, the skull of a man (in the photo), is about 4,500 years old. In addition, they have undergone surgery to remove the head tumor. The intervention was very basic and did not succeed. But it's the first oncological surgery you know.