Cancer rates in medieval Britain were around ten times highe

© Left: Jenna Dittmar. Right: Bram Mulder
Left: Excavated medieval bone from spine showing cancer metastases (white arrow). Right: CT scan of bone from a medieval skull showing metastasis hidden within (white arrow).CT scanning used to uncover remnants of malignancy hidden inside medieval bones provides new insight into cancer prevalence in a pre-industrial world.
The first study to use x-rays and CT scans to detect evidence of cancer among the skeletal remains of a pre-industrial population
suggests that between 9-14% of adults in medieval Britain had the disease at the time of their death.
This puts cancer prevalence in
a time before exposure to tumour-inducing chemicals from industry and tobacco at around ten times higher than previously thought, according to researchers.

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