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renegrade system of growth that originates within a patients body
-unchecked growth that progresses toward limitless expansion |
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| gradual increase of number of dividing cells creates growing mass of tissue |
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| grow locally and do not spread by invasion or metastasis |
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| mutant genes taht disrupt a cells growth signaling pathway causing it to become more active |
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| spread by invsion and metastasis--cancerous |
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| direct migration and penetration by cancer cells into neighboring tissues |
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| refers to ability of cancer cells to penetrate into blood vessels, circulate through bloodstrea, and invade normal tissues elsewhere in body |
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| tissue growth based on excessive rate of cell division |
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| abnormal type of excessive cell proliferation characterized by loss of normal tissue arrangement and cell structure |
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-grow through self-renewel (continued growth and division
-unspecilaed, can be specialized
-made through reprogramming with special factors |
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-growth through unrestricted growth--keeps dividing
-becomes less specialized
-made through mutations, changes gene expression |
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-growth through unrestricted growth--keeps dividing
-becomes less specialized
-made through mutations, changes gene expression |
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| what causes a stem cell to become specialized? |
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| it changes through transcription |
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| benign tumor, not invasive--has different types of cells inside--caused by injecting undiferentiated stem cells |
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