Cancer: A Prehistoric Disease Still a Threat to the Modern Man
@article{Woldemeskel2013CancerAP, title={Cancer: A Prehistoric Disease Still a Threat to the Modern Man}, author={M Woldemeskel}, journal={Experimental pathology}, year={2013}, volume={2013} }
Copyright: © 2013 Woldemeskel M. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Cancer is a general term used to denote malignant neoplasms in humans and animals that if untreated often end up with fatal metastasis. The term “cancer” originated from the word “crab” (karkinos) applied to malignant tumors by…
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