Cancer Treatment, Personalization, and Cell Growth

Cancer develops when mutations affect genes that control cell division. Those changes can remove the normal brakes on growth and lead to uncontrolled cell proliferation. Modern science and medicine have improved how cancer is understood and treated, and some patients can now be cured.

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The general feature of cancer is uncontrolled cell division, which leads to a mass of cells called a tumor. A tumor is considered benign until it starts to invade nearby tissues, at which point it is then malignant.

In healthy cells, proliferation is tightly regulated through a complex network of positive and negative regulating factors....