What is Cancer

HISTORY
The terms carcinoma and carcinos were first used in the terms of a malignant tumor by Hippocrates and come from the Greek carcinos meaning 1) crayfish 2) canker. He also used the term squirr to refer to a solid, malignant tumor, using it as an adjective to mean “hard, or hardened”. As well as the Roman doctor Celsus, who noted that the early stages of cancerous lesions brought crabs to mind, thus resulting in the use of words like cancer and carcinos to refer to these diseases, (both originating from Greek terms for shellfish). Galien used the word oncos to describe a malignant tumor, and early in the nineteenth century the word carcinoma was used interchangeably with cancer and the suffix –oma to carcinos to get carcinoma, which is now used nowadays to exemplify a cancer

SYMPTOMS
- moles changing color(shade), size, and location
- non-healing sores/cuts/scrapes
- sore throat a little horse, and coughing
- tumors
- unusual bleeding
- bad indigestion
- bowel/bladder problems

CELL PROCESSES
A cancer cell is a mutated cell with no control over its division. The cell divides in the same way that normal cells do, mitosis. Normal cells under go mitosis when another cell dies, but cancer cells continually divide and spread. This uncontrollable growth eventually becomes a tumor, which can sometimes take the form of a lump. Cancer cells are in a way immortal. A normal cell will die after approximately fifty replications; cancer cells will never stop dividing. A cancer cell is also immune from apoptosis; a process in which a cell with damaged DNA kills itself. Overall we have found that cancer is but one thing, without honor.

Co-Author: Toby