What are the basic properties of cancer cells?

Answer 1

The cancer cell must be able to:

1. Be self sufficient in terms of growth signals (It needs to tell itself to grow)
2. It needs to ignore anti-growth signals
3. It needs to be able to move around the body and form new tumors
4. It needs to be able to replicate indefinitely
5. It needs to stimulate the growth of blood vessels from neighboring tissue to the tumor
6. It needs to evade apoptosis (Cell death)

Answer 2

The basic properties of a cancerous cell are ones that will grow at an increased rate. They will slowly overtake the good cells and then effect internal parts until they have consumed all that is available unless treatment is sought.

Answer 3

There are in total six common properties of all cancers, which are known as the hallmarks of cancer.

Pick any two you like.

1. Independence from growth factors: cancer cells drive their growth themselves
2. Immunity to growth inhibiting signals: cancer cells blatantly ignore any signals from outside which would make any normal cell kill itself (apoptose)
3. Shutdown of DNA-protective mechanisms: systems which normally kill a cell if there are severe mutations in its genome are non-functional in cancer cells
4. Angiogenesis: in order to grow, cancer cells need nutrients from blood; they stimulate growth of blood vessels into the tumour for this purpose
5. Immortality: cancer cells do not differentiate, enter cell senescence and ultimately die like healthy cells do
6. Metastasis: cancer cells rupture through tissues from the original (primary) tumour site and spread to different sites in the body, growing new tumours

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Unchecked growth and lack of specialization are two key characteristics of cancer cells. They also don't clump together and don't obey signals from other cells.

Answer 6

Cancer cells have two main characteristics that make them hard to manage. They divide rapidly within a short time as well as resist lymphocytes that induce cell death.