A Tale of Two Trends: Cancer Mortality Rises and Falls With Public Health Efforts

by Perry

Unlike a majority of the diseases that humanity has encountered, succumbed to or overcame, cancer is a disease older than the human race and has always been prevalent in our history of medicine. The oldest known record of cancer is breast cancer (BC), described in the Edwin Smith Papyrus in 3000 BC as masses in the breast that are incurable.1 The subsequent Ebers Papyrus, written in 1500 BC, further describes other tumors of the skin, uterus, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3384280091
• ISBN13: 9783384280091
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Tredition Gmbh
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"