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Cells that forgot how to die, and never learned to stop.
means A disease where abnormal cells divide out of control and can invade or spread through the body.
from From Latin cancer, 'crab,' which came from Greek karkinos — reportedly because the ancient physician Hippocrates and others thought a tumor's swollen veins radiating outward resembled a crab's legs splayed around its body. The same Greek root gives us 'carcinoma.' The zodiac crab and the disease share only this one borrowed shell.
- not one disease
- over 200 distinct diseases share the name
- ancient diagnosis
- described in Egyptian papyri from 1600 BC
- your own cells
- it is your body turning against itself, literally
- zodiac link
- the crab constellation borrows the same Greek root