7 Hallmarks of Cancer – Flashcards
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Growing uncontrollably
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Cancer cells do not respond to signals that regulate growth
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Evading death
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Cancer cells do not die
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Processing nutrients
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The cancer attracts blood vessels so they can be nourished
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Becoming imortal
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Cancer has evolved to be able to duplicate an infinite number of times
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Invading tussues
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90% of cancer deaths are caused because cancer can spread to other parts of the body
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Avoiding detection
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Cancer is often different in shape and size to make it hard for your body to regulate
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Promoting mutations
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While copying genetic information, mistakes can be made which lead to cancer.
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Malignant
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Locally harmful
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Benign
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Harmless cell
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Metastasis cell
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Cells that leaves the tumor and forms new tumor at a distant site.
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Angiogenesis
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Attracting blood vessels to grow into the tumor mass.
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Telomeres
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They operate to prevent end-to-end fusion of chromosomes.
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P53
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Spell checker
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Apoptosis
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It is the process of programmed cell death-suicide.
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Carcinogen
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Agents that cause cancer
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Genomic instability
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A characteristic of cancer cells is that those cells have changes in the nature of the genes that are compared to the normal cells
