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Cancer is a disease of mitosis which starts when a single cell is converted from a normal cell to a cancerous cell. Cancer cells do not abide by the normal control measures of mitosis and are able to proceed through interphase and the phases of mitosis often without growth factors allowing them to proceed, or even produce their own growth factors causing them to proceed through mitosis unchecked and divide excessively.
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∙ 16y agoMitosis is the normal division of cells where cells divide into two identical cells. The cycle is actioned by proteins controlled by proto-oncogenes. Cell division has a checkpoint which prevents over production of cells. Oncogenes are mutant proto-oncogenes which over-stimulate cell division by ignoring the checkpoint. Collections of mutant cells are called tumours. Tumours, or cancers, can be benign or malignant. Benign tumours do not invade surrounding tissue. Malignant tumours invade surrounding tissue, pieces can break off and invade (metastasize) different parts of the body. Sources: http://www.Biology.iupui.edu/biocourses/N100/2k4ch8mitosisnotes.html and http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/m/s/msd5/BiSc%20001%20mitosis%20notes.htm
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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 role does mitosis play in cancer?
Mitosis arguably plays the largest role in cancer. Mitosis is responsible for the growth and division of the cancerous cells.
Discuss cancer as mitosis gone wild?
Can you descuss cancer as mitosis "gone wild"?
What does mitosis have to do with lung cancer?
Mitosis is how most cells replicate. When cancer develops, the rate of cancer cell mitosis is higher than it should be and higher than the rate of surrounding cells. This is why a tumor forms.
How do mitosis inhibitors help with cancer?
Inhibiting mitosis means that cell multiplication and growth is halted, and halting that process means that the cancer will not continue to grow, and can be more easily treated and eradicated.
What does breast cancer have to do with mitosis?
Cancer has a lot to do with mitosis. A cell in mitosis normally spends a lot of time in interphase, growing. With cancer, cells do not spend enough time growing, and replicate to quickly. These cells continue replicating until a mass forms.
What is it called when mitosis goes out of control?
when mitosis goes out of control it is called
How is aging related to mitosis?
Mitosis is a form of cell division. Cancer is a mutation in cell division, generally in such a way that cell divide too often and are unregulated and end up developing a mass. Those cells also carry the mutation and those cells divide and create new mutated cells, on and on and on.
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 does cells and mitosis has to do with cancer?
it doesnt re-tard
What happens when cells cannot control mitosis?
cancer
What forms a cell division do cancer cells undergo?
mitosis
