Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Ashley's Cancer Blog

5 things I learned:

I learned what metastasis is. Metastasis is the movement of cancer cells from one region of the body to another.
I learned that pancreatic cancer is a "silent killer" because it is rarely caught in the early stages.
I learned was that tumors form from cancerous cells that divide rapidly.
I also learned that all tumors are not cancerous, some are benign while others are malignant.
I learned that there are checkpoints in the cell cycle. They are the G1, G2, and spindle checkpoints.

Questions:

If someone had a family history of cancer, does that person have a high risk of getting cancer?
Is there an age that people have the highest risk of getting cancer in general?

Like:

I liked how every group got a different cancer to research so we could learn about multiple cancers, and the presentations were not repetitive.

Didn't Like:

I did not like how we only got about a week to do this project. I think it would have been better if we had more time.

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