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Cancer may be the earliest disease ever discovered in human tissues, and the fight against cancer dates back almost 4,000 years. It was briefly uncommon, though it was concealed by old age and other illnesses (tuberculosis, dropsy, cholera, smallpox, leprosy, plague, and pneumonia). Cancer emerged as these other illnesses were conquered and as people lived longer.
