My father finds it hard to believe that he has a sixty one year old daughter. I find it hard to believe I have a nearly ninety year old father. I almost didn’t, which is story behind the scarcity of Crab Diaries blogs in the last two months. If cats have nine lives, Dad must… Continue reading Father’s Day
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."