Colon cancer is a disease that affects the colon and the rectal area. Like every other type of cancer, colon cancer is hard and difficult to treat. Although, discovered in its early stage, colon cancer is one of the most treatable types of cancer related diseases.



First colon cancer cases were known before the nineteenth century. However, the disease was not called cancer and many things about its evolution were not actually known. Although colon cancer history can be traced back in the antiquity, colon cancer cases were discovered from the ancient times to the medieval one. The disease, as we know it today began its evolution in the 17th to 20th centuries and now entered into the 21st century will a great number of diseases every year.

So, we can not say the there is someone who discovered colon cancer. This disease has a big history that can be placed in ancient times. However, although sings, symptoms and prevention forms were not known and today researches are at a level that allow us discover the disease ever before it becomes a problem, we can not name someone who made a huge difference in the history of colon cancer.

The questions about who discovered colon cancer and when was colon cancer discovered are hard to be given a simple answer because of the complexity of the disease and the lack of knowing many things about the so called “new and strange illness” in the eighteenth century.

However, today there are many researchers who have studied the evolution of colon cancer on the individuals. The things discovered have an enormous importance in the fight to create and discover a medicine that can cure cancer, or if not actually curing the disease, at least stopping its growth, and so be able to prevent death from occurring.

Generally, the disease named “cancer” is a well known one since the Ancient Greek. Actually, the origin of the word “cancer” is attributed to Hippocrates, who used the terminology to describe ulcer tumors. The word was then translated to roman and this is how we use the term cancer to name the uncontrolled growth of the cells. Although since then till now many break points in the evolution of the disease were made, many of the cancer related elements were discovered in the nineteenth century.

In the nineteenth century the method of microscopy pathology search was correlated to the observation of the autopsy findings and so a better understanding of the disease was made. Now the improvement of surgery intervention was a great element in the disease diagnosis that could be made precisely. This was also o way of knowing if the surgery was a successful one and had removed the cancer on if it has not.