Cancer of the Prostate

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Abstract
For several thousand years cancer meant a malignant growth or ulcer, so named because the ancients likened the infiltrating tumor extending out from the central ulcer or mass to the claws of a crab καρκ́ιϛος. Malignant referred to behavior: the victims suffered general ill-health and emaciation before they succumbed. Cancer was what cancer did.After the founding of cellular pathology by Virchow in the nineteenth century, it was observed that cancers, in the sense described above, had certain cellular characteristics that permitted prediction, at least in many organs and tissues, of the future malignant behavior of the tumor. The . . .

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