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Carcinization: Introduction to the Hallmarks of Cancer
The condition we call cancer has been well documented throughout all of human history. Around 400 BCE, the Greek physician Hippocrates described breast tumors with radiating blood vessels resembling the limbs of a crab or karkinos . But this is hardly the first description of tumors; we've been describing cancer in very similar ways much, much earlier than that. The first known writings from around 2500 BC are attributed to Imhotep, an ancient Egyptian physician and healer. H

Chris Hannigan
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