How cancer starts in the body?
In: Biology
Imagine a toy factory. The factory has machines responsible for producing a bunch of toys and throughout the process a bunch of fancy sensors in the machines scan each of the toys that it makes to make sure the toys come out correctly and if it doesnt it gets destroyed. Cancer is like if one of the sensors broke and the machine started making a bunch of messed up toys. Because the sensor broke theres no way for the factory to destroy the messed up toys so a bunch of messed up toys are made instead of good ones.
Your body is the factory and the machines are the cells. Cells have cycles of reproduction and scheduled death. When one of the cells are messed up it can replicate itself uncontrollably and not kill itself like its supposed to. Now you have one messed up cell replicating into 2 and those 2 messed up cells turn into 4 and so on. Thats cancer in a way i hope a 5yo can understand.
I probably got the analogy a little messed up bc its been a while since i learned this in AP Bio lolz
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