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Why does the disease Cancer have the name of a zodiac sign?

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Why does the disease Cancer have the name of a zodiac sign?

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This goes back to Latin where “cancer” means crab. So they could/should have called it crab, but the Latin roots remained, and now the English cancer refers to the disease. Also, the German “Krebs” means both “crab” and “cancer” (disease).

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