Who was the first person to identify cancer?

Who was the first scientist or doctor to identify cancer? What was his life like that led him/her to research and identify cancer? What did his/her research involve?

Who was the first person to identify cancer?
The origin of the word cancer is credited to the Greek physician Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.), considered the "Father of Medicine." Hippocrates used the terms carcinos and carcinoma to describe non-ulcer forming and ulcer-forming tumors. In Greek these words refer to a crab, most likely applied to the disease because the finger-like spreading projections from a cancer called to mind the shape of a crab. Carcinoma is the most common type of cancer.





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Reply:It was smokey Jo from Mexico.
Reply:Cancer is actually an ancient disease and can be found in the fossilized bones of our early anscestors. In Egypt there are mummies who have been identified with bone cancer and cancers of the head and neck. The earliest written documentation is on papyrus in Egypt around 1600BC where they describe breast tumors and say that 'there is no cure'.





Cancer has a long history line with various people through the centuries identifying, treating, or researching the disease.





You can read about the History of Cancer on the American Cancer Society site which provides the timeline and informative details:





ACS: The History of Cancer


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