• Question: how long has cancer been around

    Asked by mlg pro is here to Isabel on 16 Mar 2015.
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      Isabel Pires answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      Cancer is a disease that has been around as long as there have been animals. Since cancer happens when normal cells in tissues become aggressive and start dividing then any normal cell has a possibility to become cancerous.
      There is evidence in the fossil record of dinosaur bones with tumours!

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