History of the fight against cancer : discovering and fighting (1/3)

Baptized by Hippocrates and long assimilated to the black mood of melancholy, cancer is not a recent disease: its oldest known trace can be found on the toe of a hominid, 1.7 million years BC. The film traces man's first attempts to eradicate this ancient scourge of humanity - the most pertinent being the discovery of surgery.