Article ID: CBB000933232

Le cancer dans l'Antiquité: Les enseignements de Celse (2008)

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There is mention of "cancer" in many medical texts from Antiquity. An analysis is presented here of a passage from Aulus Cornelius Celsus, De medicina (V 28.2), dealing with cancer and its treatment. A confrontation has been attempted with Ancient texts on this subject and, also, some of the present advances in a new medical speciality: onco-archeology. As depicted by the Ancients, "cancer", very likely, was not different from what we know. All available data suggest that cancer, from the origins of humanity, was present all over the world but there is still no clear answer to the question of an eventual change in cancer frequency over the past 2000 years. A new field of research remains wide open to give answers to this crucial interrogation.

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Authors & Contributors
Laes, Christian
Baldin, Maurizio
Golder, Werner Albert
Iorio, Silvia
Williams, Andrew N.
Wilkins, John
Concepts
Medicine
Hippocratic medicine
Cancer; tumors
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Surgery
Comedy
Time Periods
Ancient
Places
Rome (Italy)
Greece
Egypt
Middle and Near East
Italy
Germany
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