CANCER RESEARCH PROJECT
By Chantal Deller
Cancer is a group of diseases that are cell-related. In the event of cancer, regular body cells begin changing and growing in improper ways. Regular cells grow, divide and eventually die off. Irregular cells (cancerous cells) simply keep growing and divide out of control they don't die.
Different types of bodily tissues are made up by different types of bodily cells bone cells make up bone tissue, for example. Because of this, the different types of cells that can become cancerous become different types of cancer cancerous bone cells become bone cancer, for example, while cancerous breast cells cause breast cancer.
Cancer cells usually group together to form a tumour' an abnormal mass of tissue. The tumour can destroy or invade normal cells situated close to it and cause pressure on and destroy bodily tissue surrounding it.
Cancer cells can break away from the original tumour and travel to other areas of the body. These......
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