Cancer is the second death causing disease in the world after cardiovascular diseases. Many of patient loss their life due to un-identification and lack of treatment. Some of the earliest evidence of human bone cancer was found in mummies in ancient Egypt and in ancient manuscripts dates about 1600 B.C. The world’s oldest recorded case of breast cancer hails from ancient Egypt in 1500 BC and it was recorded that there was no treatment for the cancer, only palliative treatment.
1.2.1: Origin of the word cancer: 7 The origin of the word cancer is credited to the Greek physician Hippocrates (460-370 BC), He coined the terms carcinos and carcinoma to describe non-ulcer forming and ulcer-forming tumors. In Greek, these words refer to a crab, i.e. finger-like spreading projections from a cancer called to mind the shape of a crab. The Roman physician, Celsus (28-50 BC), later translated the Greek term into cancer, the Latin word for crab. Galen (130-200 AD), another Greek physician, used the word oncos (Greek for swelling) to describe tumors. Although the crab analogy of Hippocrates and Celsus is still used to describe malignant tumors. …show more content…
More than 70% of all cancer deaths occur in poor countries, where resources available for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer are limited or nonexistent. Based on projections, cancer deaths will continue to rise with an estimated 9 million people dying from cancer in 2015, and 11.4 million dying in 2030. The major risk factor for cancer is tobacco, alcohol, diet, sexual behavior, genetic history, pollution. As per American Cancer Society (ACS) bulletin mostly 40% of cancer death is due to tobacco and alcohol consumption and additional one third death were due to diet and
1.2.1: Origin of the word cancer: 7 The origin of the word cancer is credited to the Greek physician Hippocrates (460-370 BC), He coined the terms carcinos and carcinoma to describe non-ulcer forming and ulcer-forming tumors. In Greek, these words refer to a crab, i.e. finger-like spreading projections from a cancer called to mind the shape of a crab. The Roman physician, Celsus (28-50 BC), later translated the Greek term into cancer, the Latin word for crab. Galen (130-200 AD), another Greek physician, used the word oncos (Greek for swelling) to describe tumors. Although the crab analogy of Hippocrates and Celsus is still used to describe malignant tumors. …show more content…
More than 70% of all cancer deaths occur in poor countries, where resources available for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer are limited or nonexistent. Based on projections, cancer deaths will continue to rise with an estimated 9 million people dying from cancer in 2015, and 11.4 million dying in 2030. The major risk factor for cancer is tobacco, alcohol, diet, sexual behavior, genetic history, pollution. As per American Cancer Society (ACS) bulletin mostly 40% of cancer death is due to tobacco and alcohol consumption and additional one third death were due to diet and