• Question: how did cancer get its name ( if you know )

    Asked by SGT. bacon sausage to Shikha on 12 Nov 2014.
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      Shikha Sharma answered on 12 Nov 2014:


      Hi SGT. bacon sausage,

      The Father of Medicine Hippocrates used the terms carcinos and carcinoma to describe non-ulcer forming and ulcer-forming tumors. And about 47 A.D., Celsus, wrote an encyclopedia of medicine – where he used word cancer to describe cancer disease.

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