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No other disease has much fear and horror in our everyday lives as cancer. Some statistics may explain that fear. Each year, over 1,250,000 new cases of invasive cancers will be diagnosed; more than 500,000 people will die from cancer; cancer causes one in five of all deaths; fifty percent of those diagnosed with cancer will die of the disease. As shown through the statistics, cancer is a medical phenomenon that is slowly taking over the world.
Cancer is not a modern illness. Evidence of cancer has been found in early years from fossils of animals and in mummified human remains. The word cancer comes from the Latin word crab, and its first known use was by Greek physician Hippocrates. Hippocrates and other early physicians did not understand the meaning of cells, but they did understand the idea that some abnormal growths were benign, or self-limiting, and some were malignant. Cells, however, were first seen by Robert Hooke in 1665, when he examined a piece of cork under......

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