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Published online 21 October 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news031020-2
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Dinosaurs got cancer
Bone scans reveal tumours only in duck-billed species.
Many dinosaurs had cancer, researchers have discovered.
Their tumours were like those of human patients, showing that cancer has been around, essentially unchanged, for a very long time.
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