轉自Cancer Quest
此頁面展示了一組圖片用來解釋正常細胞與癌細胞的關鍵區別。以下展示的大多數概念都在其他頁面擁有更詳細的說明。在此頁面上,我們只用了很少的文字,主要以圖形提供解釋
每個病人的每例病例都是獨一無二的。沒有兩個乳腺癌或者前列腺癌是相同的。這種變異也是使癌症如此難以治療的其中一個原因。
雖然有那麼多的差異,所有癌症也有一系列的共同點.在2000年,羅伯特溫伯格(Robert Weinberg)以及道格拉斯哈納罕(Douglass Hanahan)發表了一篇論文,列出並表述了癌症共有的一個特稱- “癌症的標誌”. 1 接下來的動畫基於這篇論文以及從那時以來的觀察。
癌細胞與正常細胞有什麼區別?













