Cancer Research UK on The Rest Is Science

This episode is brought to you by Cancer Research UK. Do you remember when we discussed why feet are so weird? Well, one particular foot bone holds an even stranger surprise. It's helping shape our understanding of cancer timelines. And for that, we're going to need to go all the way back, before Neanderthals even existed, to a 1.7 million year old foot bone. Researchers have identified a tumour in it, in the oldest known example of cancer in people. Which really shows that cancer is far from a modern disease. Beating a disease so deeply rooted in our biology won't happen overnight. But today, Cancer Research UK scientists are discovering incredible ways to turn our biology against cancer. In fact, Cancer Research UK has helped double UK cancer survival over the past 50 years. And their world-class research is driving even more discoveries to tackle over 200 types of cancer. For more information about Cancer Research UK, their research, breakthroughs and how you can support them, visit cancerresearchuk.org forward slash rest is science.