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Oldest cancer sufferer found - 1.7 million years old, in fact

Oldest cancer sufferer found - 1.7 million years old, in fact

Oldest cancer sufferer found - 1.7 million years old, in factPatrick Randolph-Quinney, Univer A 1.7 million year-old fossil with a cancerous growth.Scientists' conventional opinion about cancer was that it's a relatively recent phenomenon caused by the stresses of modern life.Dietary changes, behavioural changes and manmade changes to our environment have subjected humans to toxins that contribute to cancers.But new findings from researchers at South Africa's University of the Witwatersrand published in the South African Journal of Science challenges that assumption.