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Trivia returns Tuesday: According to Cancer.org, cancer (the disease) was originally named after THIS creature. What creature?

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Trivia returns Tuesday: According to Cancer.org, cancer (the disease) was originally named after THIS creature. What creature?

Posted on October 6, 2022 by Kat Walters

When Hippocrates found cancer in patients in ancient Greece, he thought it looked like THESE. That was eventually translated to “cancer” by the Romans, which was the Latin Word for Crab.

The creature that represents the astrological sign for Cancer…

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