When did "cancer" become a familiar word to modern people?!
Question: When did "cancer" become a familiar word to modern people!?
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maybe some 20-25 years ago!. there are more cancers now not just because of the development of medical science but i'm sure there are indeed more cancers because of pollution and other modern man-made health hazard!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Fifty-five years ago my father was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 29!. His mother was mortified - there were (even) more myths about cancer then than there are now, and she believed it was caused by dirt!. You can bet she didn't mention to any of her friends that her son had cancer, the way most mothers would now!.
In those days, and on into the 60s, 70s and 80s, it was not unusual to see people mouth the word 'cancer' rather than say it aloud - some people still do!.
There aren't more people developing cancer, so much as more information and better and more routine screening!.
Up until the 1980s there were only 3 TV channels in Britain, and until the 1970s only a handful of radio stations, and of course no internet - people didn't have access to the information about cancer that they have now!. It's easier to get information about cancer now, public figures are often open about having it and it isn't quite the dark secret it used to beWww@Answer-Health@Com
In those days, and on into the 60s, 70s and 80s, it was not unusual to see people mouth the word 'cancer' rather than say it aloud - some people still do!.
There aren't more people developing cancer, so much as more information and better and more routine screening!.
Up until the 1980s there were only 3 TV channels in Britain, and until the 1970s only a handful of radio stations, and of course no internet - people didn't have access to the information about cancer that they have now!. It's easier to get information about cancer now, public figures are often open about having it and it isn't quite the dark secret it used to beWww@Answer-Health@Com
Cancer is an ancient disease!. The origin of the word and disease is credited to Greek physician Hippocrates (460-370 B!.C!.)!.
So !. !. I am not sure if you can use the term modern !. !. people and especially the medical communuty have been aware of the existence of cancer as a disease for hundreds if not thousands of years !. !. but I suppose it became more commonly known with the advent of books, the press, and the age of information!.
the History of Cancer
http://www!.cancer!.org/docroot/CRI/conten!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
So !. !. I am not sure if you can use the term modern !. !. people and especially the medical communuty have been aware of the existence of cancer as a disease for hundreds if not thousands of years !. !. but I suppose it became more commonly known with the advent of books, the press, and the age of information!.
the History of Cancer
http://www!.cancer!.org/docroot/CRI/conten!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
The Old English word for a Crab - stems from the Germanic Saxon Kreb, However Cancer comes from the anotomical name - 'cancer' is from the Latin word for "a crab,"
later the word cancer was used to describe a "malignant tumor!." which was first described by the Greek physician Galen, (among others), who noted similarity of (karkinos) crabs to some tumors with swollen veins!. However Galen used the term "oncos" to describe all tumors, the root for the modern word oncology!.
Cancer has been studied since the approx year 1761!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
later the word cancer was used to describe a "malignant tumor!." which was first described by the Greek physician Galen, (among others), who noted similarity of (karkinos) crabs to some tumors with swollen veins!. However Galen used the term "oncos" to describe all tumors, the root for the modern word oncology!.
Cancer has been studied since the approx year 1761!.Www@Answer-Health@Com