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A normal cell turns cancerous when there is damage between a few of the genes that are in control of cell growth. These cells will eventually invade the blood supply and kill the host.
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The process in which a normal cell become a cancerous cell is called what?
Dysplasia
How does a mistake in mitosis of a cell affect its tissue?
If mitosis goes wrong, cancerous cells forms.
What is the process by which a regular cell begins to replicate indefinitely and becomes cancerous?
well the cells go through a interesting process that includes cell "reproduction"
Before a normal cell becomes too large to carry out normal activities it will divide to form what?
Before a normal cell becomes too large to carry out normal activities it will divide to form two daughter cells. This cell division is called mitosis.
Where can cancer be?
Any cell in the body that mutates and loses it's normal 'lifetime' gene which controls it's time of death can be called cancerous if it becomes 'immortal'. Tumours grow at vastly different rates and there are hundreds of types of cancers.
What cell becomes a sex cell?
A normal body cell transfers to the testes and become a sex cell.
Can just one mutation usually change a normal cell into a cancerous one?
yes, eg sickel celled animia
What is that a cell contiously divide?
A cancerous cell.
Is there a way to keep the telomeres from shortening?
the enzyme telomerase is used to stop the shortening of the telomeres. a good example is when a cell becomes cancerous the body will release telomerase so the cell wont die
Most cancerous tumors being goring which phase of the cell cycle?
Most cancerous tumors are detected at advanced phase of the cell cycle.
Is myxoid spindle cell lipoma cancerous?
no
What are the triggers that make a cell cancerous?
Radiation
