What must happen for normal cells in order to become cancer cells?
How normal cells convert to cancer cells?
What the point that must be passed for converting normal cell to cancer cell?
Dear Laith A. Ismael
It is not easy for a normal cell to become a cancer cell. The process is complex. Cancer cell will develop from a normal cell only when its DNA is damaged. DNA is in every cell and directs all the cell’s activities. Most of the time when DNA is damaged, either the cell dies or is able to repair the damaged DNA.
But if the damaged DNA cannot be repaired, it will result in a cancer cell. In a cancer cell, the damaged DNA (mutations) in particular genes may mean that a cell starts making too many proteins that triggers a cell to divide and at the same time the cell stops making those proteins that normally tell a cell to stop dividing. The result of such genetic alteration leads to abnormal proliferation of a single cell. Cell proliferation then leads to the outgrowth of a population of clonally derived tumor cells.
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