Cancerous Cell

A Cancerous Cell is an tumor cell that can divide very quickly.

• AKA: Malignant Cell.
• Context:
  • It can be a Glioblastoma Cell, a Squamous Cell, a Fibrosarcoma Cell, a Medulloblastoma Cell, a Oncocytoma Cell, a Lukemia Cell, ...
  • It can (typically) be a member of a Cancerous Tumor (that can lead to cancer).
  • It can (typically) be produced through a Carcinogenesis Process.
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• Example(s):
  • a Cancerous Liver Cell, Cancerous Kidney Cell, Cancerous Skin Cell, Cancerous Bone Marrow Cell, ...
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Non-Malignant Tumor Cell.
  • a Healthy Cell.
• See: Natural Killer Cell, Immune System, Antigen, Lymphocyte, Cell Growth, Chemo-Chemical.

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References

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cancer_cell Retrieved:2014-8-9.
  • Cancer cells are cells that grow and divide at an unregulated, quickened pace. Although cancer cells can be quite common in a person they are only malignant when the other cells (particularly natural killer cells) fail to recognize and/or destroy them. In the past a common belief was that cancer cells failed to be recognized and destroyed because of a weakness in the immune system. However more recent research has shown that the failure to recognize cancer cells is caused by the lack of particular co-stimulated molecules that aid in the way antigens react with lymphocytes.

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