When it comes to radiation therapy products, the high tech companies really outdo themselves with names. It seems to me that the higher the price tag on the item, the more thought goes into the label. Varian, the largest manufacturer of linear accelerators, trumped its competition with the moniker on its latest linac, the “TrueBeam”. … Continue reading I’ll Take the Sexy Name
The great Greek physician and teacher Hippocrates (460 BC-370 BC) described several kinds of cancer, referring to them with the Greek word "carcinos", meaning crab or crayfish. This name comes from the appearance of the cut surface of a solid malignant tumor, with the "veins stretched out on all sides as the animal the crab has its feet, whence it derives its name."