Cancer AND Mitosis

6 May 2023
Name Colby Jansen

What is cancer? What is mitosis?

Cancer is a disease in which some of body the body’s Mitosis is a type of cell division that results in two
cells grow uncontrollably and spread to other parts of daughter cells each having the same number and kind
the body. It can happen anyway on the body for of chromosomes as the parent nucleus, typical of
example the lunges. ordinary tissue growth.

What is the relationship between the two?

The relationship between the two is very close.

Mitosis occurs infinitely. The cells then never die in
cancer, as sections of the cells can utilize telomerase
to add many telomeric sections to the ends of DNA
during DNA replication, allowing the cells to live
much longer than other somatic cells. With this
mechanism, cancer cells that usually die simply
continue to divide.

The different types of cancer?

There are over 100 different types of cancer for

example, colorectal cancer which in the cells the
colon or rectum grow out of control, kidney cancer What causes cancer in the body?
when cancer cells gather by the kidney and cause Tobacco use, alcohol consumption, unhealthy diet
blood in a person’s pee, lymphoma is a cancer of the this are only a few things that can cause cancer in the
lymphatic system which is part of the body’s germ- body.
fighting network , ovarian cancer affects the ovaries
thar stores the eggs needed to make babies, and
thyroid cancer is a disease in which malignant cells
form in the tissues of the thyroid gland.