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Cancer

(Science: oncology) The first historical description of this condition was in relation to breast carcinoma.

1. this is now a general term for more than 100 diseases that are characterised by uncontrolled, abnormal growth of cells. Cancer cells can spread locally or through the bloodstream and lymphatic system to other parts of the body.

2. Malignant growth resulting from uncontrolled cell division


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living forever

... that those infamous telomeres are there to protect you from your own cells - that is, they prevent cells to uncontrollably divide and become cancerous in case they lose some other control growth mechanisms. After all, when there is cancer, also the telomere shortening ceases. So how about ...

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by biohazard
Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:03 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: living forever
Replies: 4
Views: 48

Please Help

... is mutated to stimulate cell division in the homozygous recessive form a cellular homologue of a viral oncogene 2.How do tumor retrovirus promote cancer? they cause the cells to detach from the basement membrane and metastasize they carry an oncogene that promotes cancer they cause cells to stop ...

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by kpax
Tue Aug 25, 2009 2:33 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Please Help
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Views: 47

Facial hair

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by zami'87.
Sun Aug 23, 2009 3:36 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Facial hair
Replies: 38
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multiple myeloma survival

ive been recently searching about the survival rate of multiple myeloma cancer, but always come up with a different answer. the most consecutive one I got was 35.8 percetn. is that correct?

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by mydntyepoison
Sun Aug 16, 2009 11:52 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: multiple myeloma survival
Replies: 1
Views: 41

Re: Re:

The "backup" cells at least function or ar capable of functioning as intended, but could there be some kind of rogue cells as well? Cancer is of course one obvious scenario of this, but is there something that does not cause any visible symptoms and couldn't be measured with current ...

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by parth88
Thu Aug 13, 2009 6:18 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: efficiency of body cells
Replies: 7
Views: 197
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