Posted: Jun 15, 2012 10:59 am
GenesForLife wrote:Um, partly but not quite. That is just one of the hallmarks of cancer, and cells need to exhibit all of them to qualify as cancerous. (See Hanahan and Weinberg, The Hallmarks of Cancer).
I thought you might nit-pick, but I wasn't trying to describe everything, and that in turn is because it isn't necessary to the point at issue, that cancer is a disease of cellular biology, in that the cancerous cell is unable to die, an abnormal state, that makes it a cause of disease for the organism that ultimately sustains that cell.