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Galen another Greek physician used the word oncos to describe tumors.
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Cancer was discovered in Egypt and described as a disease wihout treatment.
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Greek physician Hippocrates known as the father of medicine used the term "carcinoma" to describe the cancerous tumors
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Autopsies preformed by famous scientist William Harvey led to an understanding of blood circulation throughout the body.
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Lutsitani and Tulp publicized the contagion theory and proposed cancer patients be isolated to prevent the spread of the disease.
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John Hunter a Scottish surgeon suggested that some cancers might be cured by surgery.
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Giovanni Morgagni preformed autopsies to relate patients illness to pathologic findings after death. This laid the grounds for oncology; the study of cancer.
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First cancer hospital in France forced to move because people feared the cancer would spread thorugh the cities.
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German pathologist Johannes Muller demonstrated cancer is made of cells and not lymph, but he believed they were not normal cells.
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Karl Thiersch German surgeon showed cancer metastasized through malignant cells and not unidentified fluids.
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The "birth" of oncology with the use of modern microscopes and technology.
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Roman physician Celsus translated the Greek term carcinoma into cancer the Latin word for crab.
