In effect, the cancer cell was forgetting it was cancer and becoming a normal cell.

This is a normal cell. This is a cancer cell.

These cancers include acute lymphoblastic leukaemia acute myelogenous leukaemia chronic lymphocytic leukaemia hairy cell leukaemia non Hodgkin's lymphoma Hodgkin's disease melodysplastic syndrome multiple myeloma retinoblastoma Ewing sarcoma Wilms tumour neuroblastoma sarcoma rhabdomyosarcoma testis tumour and lung cancer.

However cancer is constrained by living inside our bodies, and its continued growth, its spreading through our bodies and eating away at our tissues, leads to the death of the cancer patient and also to the death of the cancer itself.

And this is exactly how one cancer cell becomes two cancer cells, two cancer cells become four cancer cells, and we have ultimately uncontrolled tumor growth.

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It was in her brain, in her lungs, in her liver.

Cancer is an interaction of a cell that no longer is under growth control with the environment.

And just as the Tasmanian devil cancer is contagious through the spread of living cancer cells, so is this dog cancer.

We think that cancer cells actually come off the tumor, get into the saliva.

Before the surgery for the stomach cancer, the cancer cells have spread to the lungs.

And the reason is that cancer, like every cell in the body, places little molecular bookmarks, little Post it notes, that remind the cell I'm cancer I should keep growing.

We found that all of these cancers shared the same DNA.

That means that all of these cancers actually are the same cancer that arose once from one individual devil, that have broken free of that first devil's body and spread through the entire Tasmanian devil population.

If they don't it goes everywhere.

In a human being, down in here it could be make blood cells, start cancer.

But it could be pancreatic cancer cells.

A carcinogen is any substance or agent that causes abnormal growth of cells, which can also cause them to metastasize or spread.

The first cancer that we have focused on is the deadly brain cancer, GBM.

But Wigler, besides looking at cancer cells, looked at normal cells, and made a really sort of surprising observation.

May none of your non cancer cells become endangered species.

At first when I heard of cancer stem cells, I didn't really know how to put the two together. I'd heard of stem cells, and I'd heard of them as the panacea of the future the therapy of many diseases to come in the future, perhaps.

Most of the people that Dr. Southam injected did not go on to develop cancer from the injected cells.

Another example is the creation of hybridomas, hybrid cells created in the laboratory by fusing normal white blood cells that produce antibodies with a cancer cell. Researchers wanted to combine the cancer cells rapid growth and the normal cells ability to dictate the production of a single specific monoclonal antibody.

And I stumbled across something called cancer stem cells.

So just finally, cancer is an inevitable outcome of the ability of our cells to divide and to adapt to their environments.

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This is cultures, identical cultures, of cervical cancer cells.

But if you really understand why does a cell go from normal cell to cancer?

If you postpone the surgery, pancreatic cancer cells will spread.

Cells in laboratory cultures that are resistant to chemotherapies typically lose their resistance when the chemicals are removed. Lung cancer cells that are resistant to the chemotherapy gemcitabine are less proliferative, invasive, and motile than their drug sensitive counterparts.

These cells are so versatile, these cancer cells are so versatile we just have to manipulate them in the right way.

The cancer cells, small, round and rapidly dividing, grew these arms and extensions.

Ad he decided to put this to the test by actually deliberately inoculating people with cancer from somebody else.

If those diseases where tissues are deteriorating for example Alzheimer's, where the brain, the brain cells, die and we need to restore new brain cells, new functional brain cells what if we could, in the future, use cancer? A tumor put it in the brain and cause it to differentiate into brain cells?

Stem cells are packed in that liposuction fluid.

Shouldn't we think about manipulation, rather than elimination?

The cancer cells have spread to the lungs, that means the whole body has been infected.

And, unfortunately, this late stage of cancer is the one at which it's most likely to be diagnosed, when angiogenesis is already turned on and cancer cells are growing like wild.

And in the measure that we learn how chickens grow wings, and what the program is for those cells to differentiate, one of the things we're going to be able to do is to stop undifferentiated cells, which you know as cancer, and one of the things we're going to learn how to do is how to reprogram cells like stem cells in such a way that they express bone, stomach, skin, pancreas.

Cancer occurs when a single cell in your body acquires a set of random mutations in important genes that cause that cell to start to produce more and more and more copies of itself.

Designing therapies to sustain a stable tumor mass rather than eradicate all cancer cells will require a strategy that looks beyond the immediate cytotoxic effects of any one treatment. Researchers will need to establish the mechanisms by which cancer cells achieve resistance and what it costs them.

And furthermore, that nervous tissue brain gets cancer, and brain cells are also terminally differentiated.

The cancer stem cells remain, and the tumor can return months or years later.

Could it be possible to notice the transfer of the cancer cells at an early stage?