Hallmarks of Cancer

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Hallmarks of Cancer

o Image:Hallmarks, Overview
Hallmarks, Overview
Cancer is a disease that affects people of all nationalities and age groups and all cancers start with mutations in one cell.
o Image:Hallmarks, Growing uncontrollably
Hallmarks, Growing uncontrollably
Professor Robert Weinberg explains that cancer cells have to learn how to grow in the absence of growth stimulatory signals that normal cells require from their environment.
o Image:Hallmarks, Evading death
Hallmarks, Evading death
Professor Robert Weinberg discusses how cancer cells have to learn how to avoid the process of programmed cell death known as apoptosis carried out in normal cells.
o Image:Hallmarks, Processing nutrients
Hallmarks, Processing nutrients
Professor Robert Weinberg explains how cancer cells have to learn how to become angiogenic, that is to say attract blood vessels to grow into the tumor mass.
o Image:Hallmarks, Becoming immortal
Hallmarks, Becoming immortal
Professor Robert Weinberg explains how normal cells can only double a certain limited number of times; and cancer cells have to learn how to proliferate indefinitely, i.e, they have to become immortalized.
o Image:Hallmarks, Invading tissues
Hallmarks, Invading tissues
Professor Robert Weinberg, explains that cancer cells have to learn how to invade and metastasize.
o Image:Hallmarks, Avoiding detection
Hallmarks, Avoiding detection
Bruce Stillman, Ph.D. is president and chief executive officer of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, explains that there are two adaptive immune responses, and those immune responses adapt to changes in cells in our body whether they be by infection or other.
o Image:Hallmarks, Promoting mutations
Hallmarks, Promoting mutations
Bruce Stillman, Ph.D., president of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, explains that genomic instability is a characteristic of cancer cells.