Why do we call it cancer?

Posted 6 years ago by Evan Tishuk

Legend has it that Hippocrates was examining a woman with a tumor in her breast and noticed its pattern of swollen veins looked like what he called "karkinos." This word menaing "crab" was later translated into it's Latin equivalent---cancer.

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