Why can cancer be considered a disease of the cell cycle?

Answer 1

The cells lose the ability to stop reproducing. That is what cancer actually is. A overgrowth of a specific type of cell.

Answer 2

See a cancer cell is a normal cell which loses its control over the number of cycles in which it should mutate and starts multiplying itself in leaps and bounds without any control of the cycles and hence you can consider it as a disease of the cell cycle.

Answer 3

during the cell cycle, there are certain things that regulate the cycle, both inside and outside the cell that tell it when its alright to proceed with mitosis and when to stop. Cancerous tumors usually occur when some cells don't respond the internal or external regulators and keep producing more cells. These cells can often damage the tissue that it is attatched to or break off and spread to other parts of the body.

Answer 4

With cancer, cells begins growing and dividing abnormally. There is also accelerated growth. Sometimes these cells can invade organs and spread via the circulatory or lymphatic system. If a cancer spreads to another organ, the cells from the original site begin to grow in the invaded organ. This is call metastisis.

Answer 5

That is because cancer cells mutate in a uncontrolable way. that is why it is considered a disease of the cell cycle. it can also be caused by not repairing the miscreated cells that are supposed to be repaired. they build up after years.

Answer 6

Cancer is a disease of the cell cycle because: normal cells are produced to serve a certain function depending on their location in your body. At the end of their life, they self-destruct and new cells are made to perform the same process.
Cancer cells form and instead of serving a function to the body, they serve a function for themselves. They multiply into more cells that do not serve a function. Furthermore, they start to destroy your body and when your body sends messages for them to die (known as Apoptosis), they don't listen, but instead continue their path of destruction, rapidly multiplying and dying at their own rates.

Answer 7

cancer is caused by cells dividing uncontrollably and sucking the nourishment that should go to healthy, normal cells. wikipedia has a pretty good article on cancer.

Answer 8

cancer is a chromosome mutation (frameshift or point) and can be environametal, heredity etc.