The true life story of Cancer

by Johnson Mbabazi

The word "cancer" came from the father of medicine: Hippocrates, a Greek physician. Hippocrates used the Greek words carcinos and carcinoma to describe tumours, therefore calling cancer "karkinos." The Greek terms essentially were words that were used to describe a crab, which Hippocrates thought a tumour resembled. Although Hippocrates may have named the disease "cancer," he was certainly not the first to discover the disease. The history of cancer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1659475449
• ISBN13: 9781659475449
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 30 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"