and 500 b.c., and i start to me is by her greek slaves. 200 years later in chest, hippocrates identifies the tumor as giving her illness a name that was bring to its future. incidentally this is the name cancer because hippocrates imagines cancer as a crab buried under the skin and the blood vessels spread out like the legs of the crab under the sand, right from its moment of inception, and cancer is a metaphoric disease. it permeates this illness. a thousand years/by anatol says black file is perched on her body coming at the tumor keeps growing, relapsing. medieval assertions understand little about her disease, but chisel away with niacin scalpels. some offer -- and these are real documents drawn from historical texts. frogs blood, holy water, crab taste, chemicals as treatments. in 1778, in london, her cancer is assigned a stage, early localized breast cancer or late advanced invasive breast cancer. for the former, hunter recommends a local operation and for the latter he recommends are no sympathy. when a tulsa reemerges, she encounters a new world of surgery, her breast cancer is t