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when cells keep dividing it causes cancer

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Q: What happens if cells do not know when to stop dividing?
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What happens if cells stop dividing?

Then the cell colony and the organism it is associated with will die


When cells touch do they stop dividing?

Cells usually stop dividing when they touch one another.


Do liver cells also stop dividing after birth?

All cells will stop dividing when you die. When you're born, cells slow down the dividing, but don't completely stop.


Cells can sense when to start dividing or stop dividing?

True.


What are 2 ways that cells know to stop dividing?

contact inhibition and "go, no-go" switches


How do you stop cancer cell from dividing?

"Normal" cells stop dividing when they come into contact with like cells, a mechanism known as contact inhibition. Cancerous cells lose this ability. Pictures of cancer cells show that cancerous cells lose the ability to stop dividing when they contact similar cells.


What happens when a cell cannot stop dividing?

you get cancer


What is contact inhibitation?

It is when cells stop dividing due to crowding


What treatment can help stop cancer cells from dividing?

Chemo


Do cells that are affected by cancer stop dividing?

no the cells continue to divided thus spreading the new cancer cells


Does cancer start when cells stop growing and dividing?

everybody is born with cancer cell. No cancer does not start when cells have stoped growing and dividing. it is simply because the cancer cells are getting agrrivated witch makes it start.


If you are using division to write a fraction as a decimal how do you know when to stop dividing?

if you r using division to write a fraction as a decimal how do u know when to stop dividing