Fossil evidence reveals that cancer in humans goes back 1.7 million years
Patrick Randolph-Quinney And Edward John Odes, The Conversation
These discoveries were made possible by state-of-the-art 3-D imaging techniques. Fossil evidence Finding any cancer or neoplastic disease in the archaeological record has always been a contentious issue. One was an example of a benign tumour and the other a malignant cancer. The external bone mass might have suggested a benign tumour. Cancer is not simply a disease affecting humans.