While the cases of breast cancer as well as the recovery rate continues to rise, breast cancer is nothing new to today's society. Breast cancer has been around for centuries. Cases of breast cancer have been dated back to the Egyptians when they would burn away (cauterize) the cancerous tissues. Surgery was an extremely immoderate treatment considering there was no anesthesia available. According to the doctrines of the Greek physician Caudius Galen (130-200 AD), whose works on physiology and anatomy dominated medical thought until the Middle Ages, melancholia was the chief factor in the development of breast cancer. (Breast Cancer Society of Canada) Patients were put on special diets and sometimes exorcism was recommended.

In the Rennassance Era, Andreas Vesalius, an anatomist, thought of the mastectomy, which is still used today. The spread of the

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