تشخيص ومعالجة الأورام السرطانية في الطب العربي الإسلامي

Abstract

Greco-Arab and Islamic medicine refer to medicine developed during the
Golden Age of Arab-Islamic civilization (seventh to seventeenth century), which
extended from Spain to Central Asia and India. Arab-Islamic physicians and
scholars developed a large and complex medical literature exploring and
synthesizing the theory and practice of medicine. They introduced many new ideas
and upgraded the knowledge about herbs and their therapeutic effects and safety.
Some of the traditional Greco-Arab herbal derived anti-cancer treatments are
reported to be effective. Strikingly, herbal plant extracts and based drug, including
those attributed to the Islamic civilization were reported to mediate their effects by
modulating several recently identified therapeutic pathways. Ibn Sina (980-1037)
and Al-Razi (965-1015) described most types of cancers known at their time and
suggested several treatments based on their belief that cancer is a result of excess
of burned black bile in the affected tissue. Al-Zahrawi (936-1013) was the first to
conduct classic removal of breast cancer and to invent more than 200 surgical
equipments. He recognized that cancer can be treated surgically only in its early
stages when complete removal is possible.