{"id":9335,"date":"2011-11-04T13:12:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T17:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=9335"},"modified":"2011-11-04T13:12:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T17:12:39","slug":"there-really-is-nothing-new-under-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=9335","title":{"rendered":"There Really Is Nothing New Under The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2057026\/Prostate-cancer-2-000-year-old-Egyptian-mummy.html\">U.K. Daily Mail<\/a>\u00a0reported that scans of a 2, 250 year-old mummy show that the man died a slow and painful death due to prostate cancer. \u00a0The man is believed to have been between 51 and 60 years old when he died.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The earliest diagnosis of\u202d \u202cmetastasising prostate carcinoma came in\u202d \u202c2007 \u202cwhen researchers investigated the skeleton of a\u202d \u202c2,700-year-old Scythian king who died,\u202d \u202caged\u202d \u202c40 to 50,\u202d \u202cin the steppe of Southern Siberia,\u202d \u202cRussia.\u202d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8216;This study shows that cancer did exist in antiquity,\u202d \u202cfor sure in ancient Egypt.\u202d \u202cThe main reason for the scarcity of examples found today might be the lower prevalence of carcinogens and the shorter life expectancy,\u202d&#8217; \u202cPaula Veiga,\u202d \u202ca researcher in Egyptology,\u202d \u202ctold Discovery News.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Evidently we have a higher incidence of cancer today because we live longer and we have more things that cause cancer. Who knew? Might it be possible that we have more incidences of cancer today because we live longer and there are many more of us?<\/p>\n<p>I do actually find it encouraging that cancer has been with us for a very long time. To me, that is an indication that man did not cause it and that science can find the cause and medicine can cure it!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=e4d77def-8e15-4d7c-8510-e3d9227e5546\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the U.K. Daily Mail\u00a0reported that scans of a 2, 250 year-old mummy show that the man died a slow and painful death due to prostate cancer. \u00a0The man is believed to have been between 51 and 60 years old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=9335\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1084,195,85,1085,1082,1083,1086],"class_list":["post-9335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ancient-egypt","tag-cancer","tag-egypt","tag-egyptology","tag-prostate-cancer","tag-russia","tag-siberia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9368,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335\/revisions\/9368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}