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Cancer is the result of cell not listening to the signals telling it to stop dividing. Cancer cells have a defect in 2 genes ( a gene that allows cancer and a gene that destroys the cancer cell). As a result, the cell will keep on dividing and not do what it is suppose to do. When the mound of cancer cells are present, it is called a tumor.

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What is uncontrolled mitosis?

Uncontrolled mitosis is when cells continue to divide. Which is considered the developing of a tumor or that is cancer.


What is it called when mitosis goes out of control?

when mitosis goes out of control it is called


What would happen if mitosis became uncontrolled?

Tumor grows


Disease caused by uncontrolled mitosis in living organisms?

cancer


Is mitosis a way to stop cancer cells from dividing?

No, mitosis is actually the cause of cancer. Well, unregulated mitosis that is. Cancer is basically uncontrolled cell division.


What would happen if mitosis was uncontrolled in the cells of a person skin?

it would cause cancer to develop


What is uncontrolled dividing of a cell called?

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What is uncontrolled growth called?

Uncontrolled cell growth is usually called a tumor. When there is a condition that causes uncontrolled cell growth of abnormal cells, it is called cancer.


What is the result if mitosis occurs at an abnormal rate?

This is the definition of cancer. It will produce a large growth with uncontrolled activity.


What occurs when uncontrolled division takes place?

Cancer is potentially a fatal form of uncontrolled cell division. Mitosis then becomes a weapon turned against the body, which spurs the growth of invasive tumors.


Does cancer cells have lost the ability to stop dividing?

they do not. In fact, a maligant tumor goes through uncontrolled mitosis, and does not stop reproducing.


What condition would result if mitosis is uncontrolled in the body?

Uncontrolled cell division occurs whenever a cell is incapable of responding to growth regulators that are released within it. This uncontrolled growth is cancer. When cells begin to divide uncontrollably, your white blood cells come and destroy them before they form a tumor. However, sometimes your body fails to recognize these cells as a threat, or some of them get separated from the others and enter your bloodstream, which causes the cancer to spread. In cases like these medical help is needed to help kill the cancerous cells.