Authors Note: Cells are anywhere and
everywhere, just like any other living thing they die, but can also reproduce.
Sometimes the cell division can cause cancer, but depending on your condition,
there are things that can help.
Cell: A
microscopic body made of protoplasm; it holds one or more nuclei and other
organelles (Meriam-Webster, 2012). If you didn’t
know by now, cells are everywhere, they’re the smallest unit of life and they
make up just about everything. Believe it or not they’re even inside us! They
can help us fight viruses but can also cause us to get certain illnesses like
cancer. When you get certain cancers it’s because of your cells and mitosis,
sometimes this can be fatal, but other times there are some treatments that can
help.
Now, there are
probably some of you are wondering what mitosis is, or how it affects cancer.
Mitosis is the process of cell division; it’s when a cell divides into two
daughter cells and reproduces a certain amount of times (What Is Mitosis? , 2011) (Arnold, 2011). Sometimes cells divide
too many times, and it can be the start of cancer. These cells can live forever
as long as they have their necessary nutrients like water and oxygen (Arnold, 2011).
Next on the list to talk about are cancer
cells. Like it said above, if cells don’t stop dividing, it can cause cancer,
and that happens because when cells don’t go away, or die, they can start to
clump up, causing a tumor. (Cancer Cells vs Normal Cells, 2012 ) So,
depedning on where your cells decide to keep dividing, that’s where you’d get a
certain type of cancer. For example: “adenocarcinoma (cancer of a gland), leiomyosarcoma( cancer of the muscle
cells), neurosarcoma (cancer of
the nerve cells), liposarcoma (cancer of the fat cells)” (Cancer Cells vs Normal Cells, 2012 ).
Lastly are cancer treatments;
it has been a long time since the FDA approved the first angiogenic drug to
treat metastatic colorectal cancer, in fact it’s been nine years (Farbod, 2012 ).
Since then though, there have been setbacks in the treatment field for cancer,
the tests that they run to see if people are more prone to things results
turned out to not be as reliable as scientists thought they were. (Farbod, 2012 ).
However, there are some treatments that can help, like chemotherapy, that’s when
they put medicine in your blood stream to destroy the cancer cells (Chemotherapy ).
So, in final conclusion, we now
know that cells are everywhere, and they can be both good and bad. We need
mitosis, but every once in a while something can go wrong and some unlucky
person can end up with cancer. It isn’t always fair, but there’s nothing we can
do to stop it. And even though there are some treatments, sometimes the best
they can is just hold it off for a while. Mitosis is needed, but sometimes it’s
not good.
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