Science homework

Question

Cancer can be simply defined as the uncontrolled division (reproduction) of abnormal cells. Knowing this, explain at least 2 ways cancer would affect different levels of organization.

Answer 1

Cancer is indeed the replication of abnormal cells On the cellular level, cancer uses the mitochondria from its omce normal cell to produce more material for cancer cells to proliferate by. (Very recently scientists have made a curious discovery, which is that cancer cell mitochondria use glucogen while normal cell mitochondria use oxygen.) Thus it affects things on the cell level detrimentally. On the organ system level, cancer can do a lot of irreparable damage, as it turns many, many organ cells into tumors more often than not. Soon the organs are no longer able to function optimally, which affects other systems and organs, and often leads to organ failure.

Was this helpful? It seems that if we starve the cancer cells of glucogen and simultaneously inject and bombard the malignant cells with oxygen, it could replace chemo poisoning therapy, which would greatly help the immune system to fight the cancer, as opposed to the suppression of the immune system and compromise that chemo causes.