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Science Report on Cancer

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The article I read was “When Cancer Cells Stop Acting like Cancer.” This article was about how researchers found out that cancer cells that are crowded together surrender and have the desire to spread which causes the pathway of cancer cells to control the size of the organ that the Cancer cells are in. This topic is very relevant today because Cancer is a common thing in the U.S. There are a lot of people who either has had, have or died from Cancer in the U.S. There are a lot of things I know about this topic due to the fact that my mother had breast cancer which spread to her liver, my father had lung and testicular cancer, and some of my family members has had cancer and some of my family members died from cancer. I know that the most common types of cancer today are Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, and Lung Cancer. There are four different stages of cancer. Stage 1 is when the cancer cell is small and has not spread to the lymph nodes yet, Stage 2 and 3 is when the cancer cells have grown larger and have spread to lymph nodes, but not to any other organ in the body, and Stage 4 is when the cancer has spread to other organs in the body and can lead to death. I know that in order to shrink the cancer cells patients can undergo chemotherapy. While reading this article there was a word that I was unfamiliar with. The word that I was unfamiliar with is metastasis. I would like to know what is the “Hippo” molecular pathway? I also would like to know what drug could be used on the pathway that could limit the spread of cancer cells to other organs? Another thing I would like to know is do the single molecule YAP stand for? While reading this article I learned that researchers found out that the pathway Hippo was active in the cancer cells. I also learned that there is a drug based on the pathway that can limit the spread of cancer cells. As I stated in the paragraph above the word that I was unfamiliar with was metastasis, which

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