How can cancer cells destroy healthy cells and thus kill you?
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Cells reproduce by dividing into two new cells. If every cell you ever had did this indefinitely, then you’d exponentially be humongous. As such, eventually cells don’t divide anymore, and they die. It’s natural (as with all living things) to die, and healthy cells have a certain life expectancy.
Cancer cells, however, are broken, and don’t have the proper instructions on when to die. So they divide into two cells (which are now BOTH cancer cells), and those divide, and those divide, and eventually you get too many cells in a given area of the body (this weird extra mass of stuff, is what a Tumor is).
These extraneous cancerous masses get in the way of the body’s natural functions, and that’s what leads to health complications and eventually death of a cancer victim.
They multiply faster than normal cells & basically steal everything a normal cell needs to survive, then they mess with normal bodily functions causing issues that kill you.
Cancerous cells are cells that don’t die off and they keep growing and multiplying and eventually interfere with organ functions. This interruption of normal function is what usually leads to complications and then death.
When someone have cancer, means that the multiplication period of the organ’s cells got disrupted, which makes them keep growing and producing more than the organ’s demanded quantity. As the result, the excess of those cells form tumors which interfere other functions inside your body, causing death in final. Basically, it’s the tumor that will kill you.
They don’t, they’re cells that have a partular gene condition that would be complicated to explain, but I surely can try if you’re interested.
Cancer cells are basically almost regular cells, but like the gone-bad-upgrade version: they’re immortal and multiply ridiculously fast, replacing the normal cells that die. They often loose the normal functions of the original cells, so when they replace them they just form masses of useless stuff where useful stuff should be, which is obviously a problem.
The normal cells just die naturally, but are replaced with the cancerous ones.
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).
They don’t destroy other cells. They themselves are normal cells that become abnormal. Normal cells have a time frame and a self destruction mechanism. It Sacrifice itself for the greater good.
Cancer cells are the opposite. They are normal cells that failed to destroy itself and grow/multiple uncontrolled. That growth will continue until it interfere and disrupt other cells and organs from performing their jobs. Death is the result from these organs failures.
Cancer cells are also known as immortal cells. Think of cancer cell as good cop who has gone rogue or Skywalker who turned to the dark side.
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