carcinos - greek for crab/cancer
"the veins stretched on all sides as the animal the crab has its feet, whence it derives its name“
- Galenos from Pergamon (200 AD)
The Hallmarks of Cancer Cell, Vol. 100, No. 1. (7 January 2000), pp. 57-70, doi:10.1016/s0092-8674(00)81683-9 by Douglas Hanahan, Robert A. Weinberg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer
http://www.cancer.org/healthy/informationforhealthcareprofessionals/cancer_statistic_2009_slides_rev.ppt
Konstanze Eichmüller and Julia Ertl
June 05, 2014