ABSTRACT
Cancer is an unwelcome, potentially life-threatening diagnosis that one-third of us will experience. The oldest descriptions of cancer date back to Egypt around 1600 BC. The so-called Edwin Smith Papyrus describes eight cases of what appears to be breast cancer. The tumors of the breast were treated by cauterization, with a tool called “the fire drill”. Clearly there was a desire and need to treat this dreaded disease, but the conclusion was “There is no treatment”. It is only in the last 100 years that we have developed more sophisticated tools to treat cancer.
