BSC 145 Study Guide - Borrelia, Peanut Butter, Monomer

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1 in 3 americans will contract cancer. Benign non-cancerous (does not spread, can become malignant) Malignant has the potential to spread to other parts of the body. Cancer arises from the accumulation of genetic changes. Women: lung 26, breast 15, colon 10% Men: lung 31, prostate 9, colon/rectal (lung cancer is fasting growing cancer) Metastatic if individual cells break away and start new tumor. Apoptosis programmed cell death abnormal cell dna divides. Before cancer mutates, cell nucleus contains proto-oncogene and tumor suppressor gene. Proto-oncogene > oncogen (a cancer causer) and inactivation of tumor suppressor gene. Angiogenesis (recruitment of blood vessels) many blood vessel inhibitors are produced by tumor, as well as blood vessel recruiters. Primary tumor grows as a result of new blood vessels, but inhibitors in the blood stream prevent smaller tumors from reaching out and recruiting their own blood vessels. When primary tumor is removed, inhibitors disappear, allowing tumor to grow.

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