title: Avicenna's view on cancer from his Canon.
abstract: Avicenna's views on cancer are presented from his Medical Canon. A literal translation from Arabic has been undertaken by the author. The clinical diagnosis, the prognosis as well as the therapeutic measures according to Avicenna are interesting to know and compare with our views one thousand years later.
mesh_terms: D049691:History, Medieval; D008091:Literature; D008514:Medicine, Arabic; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000266:history*; D014610:Uzbekistan