Cancer and AI — Selected Events

2600 BCE

Egypt — Edwin Smith papyrus

“One having a wound in his throat, piercing through to his gullet… an ailment with which I will contend.”

  • “An ailment which I will treat” — curable
  • “An ailment with which I will contend” — potentially curable
  • “An ailment which will not be treated” — incurable
Edwin Smith papyrus
Breasted, Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus (1930); Mukherjee, Emperor of All Maladies (2010)
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