Cancer+Notes+-+RJ

Cancer Notes: -Heart disease and cancer are the 2 top killers of U.S. mortality rate in 2004 -Heart disease rates have decreased between 1950 and 2004 but cancer hasn't made much improvement -Cancer deaths in 2007: -Lung, Bronchus 31% -Prosate 9% -Lung, bronchus 26% -Breast 15%
 * Men: 289,550
 * Women: 270,100

Differnt types of tissue that work together for one function can be for organ or tissue cancer cells will divide even if they dont recieve a signal when a cell comes in contact with anoter cell than it is time for it to stop dividing contact inhibition the nucleus is the brain of a cell nucleus has the chromosomes and the DNA-->humans have 46 chromosomes all cancer comes from change in the DNA
 * A group of extreme cancer cells

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