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Show Ok Mow St Started 3 By Jean. Xetvton Why Do We Call It "Cancer"? WE WOULD hardly suspect that there was any relationship between be-tween the words "cancer" and "crab," yet, that is how it started. We have our word "cancer" from the identical Latin word meaning "a crab," the word itself being taken from the Greek, in which language it had the same meaning. However, the Greeks thought that the swollen veins accompanying certain cer-tain diseases, among which are what we know as cancer and canker, resembled re-sembled a crab's claws. And so, they applied this same word to the diseases an application which has stuck in our language all through the centuries, though canker and cancer can-cer of course, have long since been separated Into their modern medical categories. . Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. |