Ward John F, Eggener Scott E
Department of Urology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Asian J Androl. 2015 Nov-Dec;17(6):882-4; discussion 883. doi: 10.4103/1008-682X.156858.
"CANCER" is a disease state that leads to progressive illness that is uniformly fatal without treatment. Hippocrates invoked the Greek word karkinos, or "crab," to describe tumors he observed. For centuries, "CANCER" remained a disease that was recognized primarily in its locally advanced or metastatic stage, when it was almost uniformly fatal.
“癌症”是一种会导致进行性疾病的病症,若不治疗通常会致命。希波克拉底用希腊语单词karkinos,即“螃蟹”,来描述他所观察到的肿瘤。几个世纪以来,“癌症”一直是一种主要在局部晚期或转移阶段才被认识到的疾病,而在这个阶段它几乎无一例外是致命的。