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What is Cancer? how is mitosis related to cancer?

What is Cancer? how is mitosis related to cancer?-example-1

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Cancer: mitosis out of control

Mitosis is closely controlled by the genes inside every cell. Sometimes this control can go wrong. If that happens in just a single cell, it can replicate itself to make new cells that are also out of control. These are cancer cells.

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