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الملخص EN

Tumors are a type of common or chronic diseases that have confronted man since ancient times.

The oldest description and treatment of tumors were found in Egypt, dating back to the year 1600 BC.

AD, for a number of cases on papyrus written at the end of which "there is no cure for this disease", as the Greeks knew the diagnosis of this Disease, including Hippocrates (460-370 BC), who mentions that he was the first to diagnose tumors, calling them malignant tumors, so that the word tumor comes from the word (onklogic) from the Greek language (onkos), which means tumor, size or mass, so it is called His study of oncology, and after the movement of translation and transmission that the Islamic Caliphate witnessed in its golden age, the Greek manuscripts were translated.

Then there was surgery to remove tumors and they invented many surgical instruments.