Cancer’s History

Cancer Survival Rates In UK Among Lowest In Europe

Although British citizens have excellent access to medical care, the country lags behind other countries when it comes to cancer survival rates according to a very large study. The Eurocare-4 study looked at 2.7 million cancer patients diagnosed between 1995 and 1999. Not only is that number statistically significant, it covered patients in 23 European [...]

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Early Cancer Detection Technique Developed At Singapore

A new technique has been developed at Singapore’s National University Hospital to detect cancer in its earliest stages, a team of researchers said on Saturday. Called an “optical biopsy,” the technique can detect so-called pre-cancers – collections of a few hundred malignant cells lurking among millions of healthy cells – that usually fly under the [...]

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Cancer from History

The oldest description of human cancer was found in an Egyptian papyri written between 3000-1500 BC. It referred to tumors of the breast.  The oldest specimen of a human cancer was found in the remains of a female skull dating back to the Bronze Age (1900-1600 BC).The mummified skeletal remains of Peruvian Incas, dating back [...]

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History Of Cancer

Today, carcinoma is the medical term for a malignant tumor derived from epithelial cells. It is Celsus who translated carcinos into the Latin cancer, also meaning crab. Galen used “oncos” to describe all tumours, the root for the modern word oncology. Hippocrates described several kinds of cancers. He called benign tumours oncos, Greek for swelling, [...]

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