Tumours

... the src gene. The discovery of this was a major milestone in our understanding of cancer, because the virus uses the (now mutated) gene to cause tumours. One consideration, though, is that viruses are so small that they generally can't carry much additional genetic material - the genome is packed ...

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Hello, I'm writing a project about malign tumours and their oncogenes. In my work I'm explaining some oncogenes, and these where mutations manifest themself in incorrect proteins, I want to study. I want to compare normal and mutated proteins ...

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... making the cell inactive. This would lead to: - raises in disease and infections over time, due to lowering immune system - possible cancer/ tumours as you mentioned - in theory the immune system can spot and destroy cancer cells because of the changes in their cell surface proteins. Impaired ...

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... has already started to metastasise. Even when the primary (original) tumour has been cut out, and there is no evidence of metastatic (secondary) tumours visible in the body by CT scans etc, metastatic cells can remain in the circulation of the blood/lymph, and lurk in tissues, ready to start ...

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... another topic. The best way to reduce cancer mortality is to diagnose it as early as possible, which is a huge huge challenge, as early stage tumours are seldom symptomatic. Screening techniques are extremely limited at the moment (we only screen for breast, cervical and bowel - and image-based ...

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