Cancer rates in medieval Britain around ten times higher than previously thought, study suggests
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30 April 2021Cancer rates in medieval Britain around ten times higher than previously thought, study suggests
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.
