[9] These texts also listed many different plants used as a remedy to cancer, including spurge, which is similar to a castor bean, and Ecballium elaterium, also known as the squirting cucumber.
Many scientists in the field of bio-archaeology tend to focus research on things such as infectious diseases and other frequent public health indicators.
[10] Part of Hunt's purpose for studying ancient cancer is to help the scientific community to better understand the history of various forms of the disease, including potentially unknown causes and treatments.
In order to do this, Hunt along with help from Jennifer Willoughby, Casey Kirkpatrick, and Roselyn Campbell, launched an organization called the Ancient Cancer Foundation (ACF).
[10] One of Hunt's ultimate goals is to help build a foundation for which paleo-oncological research can progress—based in methodological discussion, multidisciplinary collaboration, and open access to information.
[4] Paleo-oncological research has been consistently growing and requires the contributions of historians, linguists, and scientists alike to further the world's understanding of cancer's historical development.
[7] It is also the hope of Hunt and her fellow researchers that this database will aid present and future scientists in their studies on how cancer has changed and evolved through time.
[11] She is also an assistant director of the Jucu de Sus Necropolis excavation and field school which she works with alongside Transylvania Bioarchaeology.
[11] After forming PRO, Hunt was awarded a TED fellowship,[12] and was named one of Fast Company's Most Creative People of 2014,[13] one of OZY's Rising Stars,[14] and one of Foreign Policy's Leading Global Thinkers.