midterm

earliest known cancer description

Edwin Smith and George Ebers papyri|2500 BC
Hippocrates describes breast cancer
- karkinoma
- 400BC
first mention as cause of death
- Bills of Mortality, England
- 1629
first systematic collection of cancer information
- General Census of Cancer
- England 1728
eath registration/death certification
- 1839
- US
earliest population-based leprosy
- 1901
- Norway

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midterm

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CIM midterm review

Updated

2010-10-09T22:40:43Z

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