Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee

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That's normal.

In cancer, it is as if those wound cells never have the signal to stop growing.

Why?

Genetic mutations in the cancer cells, mutations in genes, tell the cells, normally tell cells, when to start and stop growing.

Genes make proteins.

Those proteins act as signals.

Those signals tell a cell, now you're done.

You should stop growing and go back to being a non-growing cell.

In a cancer cell, genetic mutations make proteins that are no longer able to respond to these stop growth signals.

Therefore, the cancer cell is unable to stop growing and it keeps growing.

And ultimately, it keeps making larger and larger masses.

It can take over your bones, take over your blood, take over other parts of your body and even metastasize.

It migrates and starts growing in places where it should normally not be growing.

I mean, why should a breast cell be growing, a breast cancer cell be growing in the bone?

It's because it's co-opted.

It's co-opted its environment and made it an environment where it can actually start growing again in the case of a breast cancer cell inside bone.

So it's a cell gone awry.

It's a cell gone awry in multiple different ways, not just awry in the basic way that I said, well, you know, it can't stop growing.

It's also gone awry because it's hijacked

So it's very important.

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