I got a call a few days ago from Sandy Arledge. Sandy is semi-retired now, but when my kids were growing up she was the owner of a magical place called Far West Farms. Just a few miles from the ocean, between the strip malls of Del Mar Highlands and the housing developments that crowd… Continue reading Long Ago and Far Away
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."