Description For the first time since a 5th century Greek physician gave the name cancer (karkinos, in Greek) to a deadly disease first described in Egyptian Papyri, the medical world is near a breakthrough that could allow even the most conservative doctors and pragmatic patients to use the other c word - cure - in the same sentence as cancer.
A remarkable series of events has brought us to this point, thanks in large part to a new ability to more efficiently harnes.