How can cancer cells destroy healthy cells and thus kill you?
In: Biology
Cancer cells are once normal cells that do their own thing. They’ve gone rogue, running on a mutated set of instructions and no longer working for the benefit of your body. They don’t self terminate when they are supposed to, and even eventually can bypass your immune system by appearing normal to your t-cells.
They overconsume energy, and build their own networks of blood vessels and tissues that can dislodge, and travel to other parts of your body and take root in new locations (metastasis).
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