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Essay Archive - Cancer in American
Cancer in American
In modern society cancer is the disease most feared by the majority of
people throughout the world, supplanting the "white death," or tuberculosis,
of the last century; the "black death," or bubonic plague, of the Middle
Ages; and the leprosy of biblical times. Cancer has been known and
described throughout history, although its greater prevalence today is
undoubtedly due to the conquest by medical science of most infectious
diseases and to the increased life span of humans. The study of cancer is
known as the field of ONCOLOGY. In the mid-1980s nearly 6 million new
cancer cases and more than 4 million deaths ....
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