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Cancer Diagnosis & Treatment
by Meam Wye
Cancer was first recognized as a tumor by a persian muslim Abu Ali Sina Balkhi also known as Ibn Sina , Latin Name Avicenna, about a 1000 years back.
Ibn Sina (980-1037) was a polymath and one of the greatest physcians and Philosopher of his time. In 1025, he wrote, in Arabic, a 14-volume medical encyclopedia 'Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb' commonly known as 'The Canon of Medicine'. The canon of Medicine is considered as one of the most famous books in the history of medicine and was the standard medical text book in the universities of Europe and the Islamic world as late as the 18th century.
In Canon of Medicine, Ibn-Sina mentions: "Cancerous tumour progressively increases in size, is destructive and spreads roots which insinuate themselves amongst the tissue elements."
Ibn Sina was of the opinion that the success of cancer treatment depended on its detection stage. As such, the first step in cancer treatment should be to stop the growth.
For the treatment of cancer, he developed a herbal drug "Hindiba". He also wrote a separate supplement treatise dedicated to the pharmacotherapy of Hindiba in which he gave details on the drug's properties and uses, and provided instructions on its preparation. After recognizing its usefulness in treating neoplastic disorders, Hindiba was patented in 1997 by Nil Sari, Hanzade Dogan, and John K. Snyder.
Canon of Medicine also describes the surgical treatment of cancer. It states that the excision should be radical and that all diseased tissue should be removed, which included the use of amputation or the removal of veins running in the direction of the tumor. Ibn Sina also recommended the use of cauterization for the area being treated if necessary. He was of the opinion that surgical removal should be undertaken if the tumor was small and accessible and not too close too major organs. If cancer was of advanced stage, then according to Ibn Sina, excision should not be done as the tumor would only grow back. He also advised special diets to cancer patients to strengthen their immune system.
Ibn Sina was also the first to describe the symptoms of esophageal cancer and the first to refer to it as "cancer of the esophagus" in Canon.
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