What are the origins of the word `cancer`?!

Question: reason i ask is i was wondering why there are the star signs (why the crab representation)?and tropic of cancer and then the disease (is it classed as a disease?)

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Answers: reason i ask is i was wondering why there are the star signs (why the crab representation)?and tropic of cancer and then the disease (is it classed as a disease?)

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Origin of the Word "Cancer"
The word cancer came from the father of medicine, Hippocrates, a Greek physician. Hippocrates used the Greek words, carcinos and carcinoma to describe tumors, thus calling cancer "karkinos". The Greek terms actually were words to describe a crab, which Hippocrates thought a tumor resembled.

From the website:
http://cancer.about.com/od/historyofcanc...

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Greek origin.

Wikipedia the word 'cancer' you lazy schmook...

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You obviously have the internet, so why not look it up yourself!?!

ORIGIN Old English , from Latin,

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