Is Cancer Manmade? New Study Shows Cancer Was a Rarity in Ancient Civilizations

Cancer has become all too common in our modern day lives. As we bring the focus to breast cancer in this month of breast cancer awareness, we're left with a startling statistic, that one in eight women will be diagnosed with the disease. But a fascinating study just released from scientists at Manchester's KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology and published in Nature Reviews, shows that in the age of antiquity and in ancient Egypt specifically, cancer was a rarity. The study concludes that cancer is a manmade disease, caused mostly by pollution and diet.