The Psychoses

alessandro coricelli alessandro.coricelli at rcn.com
Tue Feb 8 08:32:15 PST 2000


---------- Doug wrote :


> Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>>Doug can't see the difference between using the word
>>cancer (actually, the correct term I believe would be malignant
>>carcinoma)
>
> Carincoma is a type of cancer.

no, carcinoma *is* cancer (from latin carcinoma and greek karkinoma, which comes from karkinos, crab). Both, carcinoma and cancer,mean "malignant tumor". There is no "non"malignant cancer (or carcinoma).

ciao, alessandro



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