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"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.
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∙ 11y agoChemotherapy, radiation therapy, anticancer drugs can stop these cells for dividing. Sometimes they do not respond.
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∙ 11y agoyes, but for temporary time period it gives a person some time to survive
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∙ 12y agokill everyone with it.
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What happens when a cell cannot stop dividing?
you get cancer
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.
What is uncontrolled mitosis called?
Cancer is the result of cell not listening to the signals telling it to stop dividing. Cancer cells have a defect in 2 genes ( a gene that allows cancer and a gene that destroys the cancer cell). As a result, the cell will keep on dividing and not do what it is suppose to do. When the mound of cancer cells are present, it is called a tumor.
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.
Can a cancer cell grown in tissue cultures divide?
Cancer is cells that dont know when to stop dividing and multiplying and they become useless and fatal and yes they can
What happens if cells do not know when to stop dividing?
when cells keep dividing it causes cancer
Describe how cancer cells differ from normal cells both structurally and in cell activity?
Cancer cells differ from normal cells structurally as they look majorly clumped with unusual patterns or formations. Cancer cells differ in cell activity compared to normal cells greatly as they are constantly growing and dividing while normal cells do not and stop growing and dividing when touching another cell.
What treatment can help stop cancer cells from dividing?
Chemo
What is the name for a mass of cells growing out of control?
It depends on what you mean by 'out of control', but if you mean the cell keeps can't stop dividing while carrying faulty information, it's called cancer.
What term best describes cell growing and dividing uncontrollably?
that is the meaning of cancer
Do cells that are affected by cancer stop dividing?
no the cells continue to divided thus spreading the new cancer cells
A scientist is trying to discover a new treatment to stop cancer cells from dividing In the cancer cells which of these processes will stop if the treatment is successful?
Genetic recombination
