Cancer

(derived from the Latin pancer, a crab), or Carcinoma, in medicine and surgery a name which is given to a group of malignant diseases, in consequence of their supposed resemblance to a crab. In the treatment of cancer it is nece ary to get the disease at an early stage of its growth, so that it may be thoroughly removed. If it is detected and removed at this period of its existence it is curable, but if the neighboring glands have become involved in the disease the reliet is only temporary.