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Cancer can be described as a disease characterized by the cell cycle going out of

control. Discuss what it means for the cell cycle to be out of control. Is it appropriate to
connect cancer and the cell cycle? Why or why not?

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-what it means for the cell cycle to be out of control: If the checkpoint mechanisms detect problems with the DNA, the cell cycle is halted, and the cell attempts to either complete DNA replication or repair the damaged DNA.

-is it appropriate to connect cancer and the cell cycle?:Superficially, the connection between the cell cycle and cancer is obvious: cell cycle machinery controls cell proliferation, and cancer is a disease of inappropriate cell proliferation. Fundamentally, all cancers permit the existence of too many cells.

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