Truth
about Mitosis
Breast
Cancer, Lung Cancer, Leukemia, Brain Cancer, and many more, all begin with one
terrible process, mitosis. Mitosis is the leading cause of all types of cancer.
The horrifying, death taking cancer all starts with mitosis, which is the
process of the splitting of chromosomes within the nucleus (Microbus).
Although,
there is more to how mitosis really produces cancer cells. Cancer is produced
when the process of mitosis loses control and overly produces and divides cells
when your body doesn’t need them. This
is a loss of normal growth control (Orgins of
Cancer). No matter what type of cancer it is, this out of control cell
growth is what causes it. Once the mitosis has created the cancer cell, the
cancer cells usually travel throughout different parts of the body and begin to
grow and replace the tissue. So you could never smoke in your life but still
get lung cancer (Orgins of Cancer).
However, once the mitosis spreads
the cancer cell around the body it is still only considered one type of cancer,
and that is determined by where the mitosis first began to split the
chromosomes. For example, if cells from liver cancer transfer to another organ
such as lungs, the cancer is still liver cancer and is not considered lung cancer (What is cancer). This is because the mitosis
originally split and created cancer cells in the liver and traveled to your
lungs so it makes the cancer liver cancer. Doctors are capable of once finding
a cancer cell, tracking where it originally formed.
After the
doctors have determined what type of cancer a person has, they give that
patient many treatment options. There are about 10 main treatments doctors
recommend to all different patients for all kinds of cancer. These top ten
treatments are, Surgery, Chemotherapy, Radiation Therapy, Targeted Therapy,
Immunotherapy, Hyperthermia, Bone marrow and peripheral blood stem cell
transplant, Photodynamic Therapy, Lasers in cancer treatment and lastly, Blood
product donation and transfusion (Treatment
Types). The most popular
treatment that cancer patients chose is surgery. Surgery is also the most
accurate out of all the treatments. This
is because with surgery you are able to remove the cancer completely right
away. However, surgery might now be an option depending on the patient’s health
information and how long the cancer has been going on and spreading and how
quickly they caught it (Treatment Types).
So as you can tell cancer can be a
very serious condition, very life threatening and scary. Many people’s lives
are taken away from them so quickly all because of mitosis, all because of
chromosomes splitting inside of the nucleus. This is why mitosis is the leading
cause of cancer because it is the process in which cancer cells are created,
and that is the scary truth behind mitosis.
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