The word "cancer" came from the father of medicine: Hippocrates, a Greek physician. Hippocrates used the Greek words carcinos and carcinoma to describe tumours, therefore calling cancer "karkinos." The Greek terms essentially were words that were used to describe a crab, which Hippocrates thought a tumour resembled. Although Hippocrates may have named the disease "cancer," he was certainly not the first to discover the disease. The history of cancer...