identify 3 specific characteristics of cancer cells?

Answer 1

You are touching on a delicate subject here. Have you seen some of the answers to questions. This is not a question for lay people. Consult someone in the medical profession.
By the way , I am in remission at the moment. Happy hunting.

Answer 2

flower,

Your question must surely have a point, a reason that you asked it.

Since you do not say what it is, I would have to guess a bit at teh kind of answer you want, but perhaps you could do worse than to start with this Emory University website:

http://www.cancerquest.org/index.cfm?page=55

Or this one from southern Illinois University as Carbondale:

http://www.science.siu.edu/biological-sciences/biol202/CancerWeb.ppt.pdf


In short, what these sites say is that cancer cells are normal cells gone very bad. They just will no longer be team players. The body can signal them, but they will not respond to the body's signals, either to grow or to stop.

They serve no useful function.
They spread to other sites and organs.
They do not know when to die (too much of the protein "survivin")
They are caused by outside agents--carcinogens, viruses.
They are caused by multiple inside changes: mutations that can be detected. Usually.

There are other charactereristics, too, and these other websites can give you a good start in finding more about this subject.

Good luck.

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Answer 3

Good question, by the way have you ever heard of myeloid Leukemia?