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What are the two fundamental properties shared by all cancer cells?
What are the two fundamental properties shared by all cancer cells?
- Defects in cell restraints and benign tumor formation
- Abnormal cell growth and metastatic spread (correct)
- Genetic control over cell growth and multicellular mass development
- Normal cell growth and division
What distinguishes a benign tumor from a malignant tumor?
What distinguishes a benign tumor from a malignant tumor?
- Invasiveness and difficulty to treat
- Multicellular mass development
- Ability to form secondary tumors (correct)
- Ability to break loose and enter the bloodstream
What is the defining feature of malignant tumors?
What is the defining feature of malignant tumors?
- Abnormal cell growth and division
- Invasiveness and potential to become life threatening (correct)
- Defects in the normal restraints of cell spreading
- Multicellular mass development
What happens when a cell loses genetic control over cell growth?
What happens when a cell loses genetic control over cell growth?
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What unites all cancers at the molecular level?
What unites all cancers at the molecular level?
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