When was the cancer discovered and by whom?

Question

When was the cancer discovered and by whom?

Answer 1

The word Cancer as you may know comes from the Greek where the Greek physician (Hippocrates) used the Greek word carcinos and carcinoma to describe tumours. This was a little earlier than the 50 or 60's, in fact it was around 300B.C.

Ofcourse cancer itself has been around a lot longer with the world's oldest documented case of cancer steming from ancient Egypt, in 1500 b.c.

Answer 2

The origin of the word cancer is credited to the Greek physician Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.).

The world's oldest documented case of cancer is from ancient Egypt, in 1500 BC. The details were recorded on a papyrus, documenting 8 cases of tumours occurring on the breast.

I once read about a tumour discovered in the fossil remains of a dinosaur, but I can’t find the reference