Scientists have discovered what may be the oldest known case of leukemia in an approximately 7,000 year old skeleton of a woman from a Neolithic graveyard in Germany.
Researchers used high resolution computer tomography to detect indications of the blood cancer in the skeleton of woman who died between 30 and 40 years of age.
Except alveolar inflammation and dental caries, the individual G61 from the Neolithic graveyard of Stuttgart-Muhlhausen was was not affected by other diseases, according to Dr Heike Scherf of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tubingen.
Dr. Heike Scherf and her colleagues foind indications of leukemia on the skeleton of the woman, who was between 30 and 40 years of age at the time of death .
Researchers used high resolution computer tomography to detect indications of the blood cancer in the skeleton of woman who died between 30 and 40 years of age.
Except alveolar inflammation and dental caries, the individual G61 from the Neolithic graveyard of Stuttgart-Muhlhausen was was not affected by other diseases, according to Dr Heike Scherf of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tubingen.
Dr. Heike Scherf and her colleagues foind indications of leukemia on the skeleton of the woman, who was between 30 and 40 years of age at the time of death .
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