Fighting cancer across the disciplines
Monday, February 21, 2011 - 13:00
in Health & Medicine
Still a mystery in the 21st Century, cancer has been known and documented since ancient times. The oldest known written description of cancer dates back to an Egyptian manuscript from 1,600 B.C.E. The Greeks used the term oncos Greek for hard swelling to describe cancer, a term that is used to this day for the field of medicine dealing cancer: oncology.