Often thought to be a lethal product of modernity colon cancer may actually have its roots in pre-modern days as researchers have discovered a genetic mutation implicated in this debilitating disease in an 18th-century Hungarian mummy. The modern plagues of obesity physical inactivity and processed food have been definitively established as causes of colon cancer and researchers have also associated a mutation of the Adenomatous Polyposis Coli (APC) gene with the deadly disease. But the new research published in the journal PLOS ONE suggests that a genetic predisposition to colorectal cancer may not be of recent origin. The researchers discovered
