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Back to Site - CRAI LibraryItem type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Libro (general) | Biblioteca Central UNIBE | General | 616.994 S741c (Browse shelf) | Ej.1 | Available | 101095 |
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The word cancer came from the father of medicine, Hippocrates, a Greek physician. Hippocrates used the Greek words, carcinos and carcinoma to describe tumors, thus calling cancer "karkinos." The Greek terms actually were words to describe a crab, which Hippocrates thought a tumor resembled. Although Hippocrates may have named "Cancer," he was certainly not the first to discover the disease. The history of cancer actually begins much earlier