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Effects of Cancer – Part 1 Video

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  • The five ways cancer significantly affects the body are through aberrant protein production, increased metabolism, immune reaction and inflammation in response to the tumor, mass effects, and treatment effects.
  • Some types of cancer, such as lung cancer, radically alter neoplasms, displaying around fifty-thousand mutations within the cell.
  • Within a cell, DNA codes for proteins, so a cancer-causing DNA mutation transmits to RNA, which then mutates into proteins, resulting in aberrant proteins.
  • Aberrant proteins cause a proteolysis-inducing factor.
  • Aberrant protein production may result in a protein cancer procoagulant that initiates a coagulation cascade in the bloodstream. That is why cancer patients have a tendency to develop venous thromboembolisms and pulmonary embolisms.

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