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the war room where humans study the cells that rewrote their own death wish
means The branch of medicine devoted to the study, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer and tumors.
from From the Greek 'onkos,' meaning 'mass,' 'bulk,' or 'swelling' — the same root behind the swelling of a tumor — joined to '-logia,' 'the study of.' The medical sense crystallized in the 19th century as physicians began naming the science of growths. Curiously, 'onkos' also carried a figurative weight in ancient Greek: it could mean pomp or burden, the heaviness of something that bulks too large — a fitting ancestor for the study of cells that grow without restraint.
- name origin
- Greek 'onkos' means mass or burden, literally tumor
- ancient record
- Egyptians described breast tumors 3,500 years ago
- immune trick
- newer drugs unmask tumors hiding from your own defenses
- specialty split
- surgical, medical, and radiation oncologists rarely overlap
- cell logic
- cancer is cells refusing the order to die
for instance
md anderson cancer center — houston hospital treating 140,000+ cancer patients annually, founded 1941