[Gynaecological oncology from the Egyptian papyruses to Hippocratic texts]

There is little paleopathological evidence of gynaecologic cancer in antiquity. Indeed descriptions of lesions of tumor-like pathologies may be found in the medical texts - Egyptian papyruses and the Hippocratic Corpus - in particular, they offer some interesting descriptions of gynecological tumoral diseases, which were well known because they were surface-diseases (e.g. breast cancer) or inspectable ones (e.g. uterine cancer). Thus literature supports the absence of paleopathological evidence and helps us in reconstructing the history of cancer.