how did cancer get its name ( if you know )

Question: how did cancer get its name ( if you know )
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Asked by SGT. bacon sausage to Shikha on 12 Nov 2014.
- Shikha Sharma answered on 12 Nov 2014:
  
  Hi SGT. bacon sausage,
  
  The Father of Medicine Hippocrates used the terms carcinos and carcinoma to describe non-ulcer forming and ulcer-forming tumors. And about 47 A.D., Celsus, wrote an encyclopedia of medicine – where he used word cancer to describe cancer disease.

Question: how did cancer get its name ( if you know )