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How Cancer Grows
10. Tumor cells travel
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Tumor

What makes most tumors so lethal is their ability to metastasize—that is, establish new tumor sites at other locations throughout the body.

Metastasis is now underway, as tumor cells from the original cancer growth travel throughout the body. Most of these cells will die soon after entering the blood or lymph circulation.

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1. DNA of a normal cell | 2. Mutation of DNA | 3. Genetically altered cell | 4. Spread and second mutation | 5. Third mutation | 6. Fourth mutation | 7. Breaking through the membrane | 8. Angiogenesis | 9. Invasion and dispersal | 10. Tumor cells travel | 11. Metastasis


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