Details of introduction to cancer and the cell cycle and cell biology it covered in detail

2. Dr Rita Lakhani,
Principal, Mangala institute of
Nursing Education, Maharashtra.

8. What is cancer?

9. PERSONAL VIEWS OF CANCER
“in the popular
imagination cancer
equals death”
(Susan Sontag,1977)
“Cancer forces us to
confront our lack of
control over our own
or others death”
Kleinman (1988)

10. WHAT IS CANCER?
• Division – uncontrolled cell division
• Growth – formation of a lump (tumor) or large
numbers of abnormal white cells in the blood
• Mutation – changes to how the cell is viewed by the
immune system
• Spread – ability to move within the body and survive in
another part

11. Meningioma

14. Cells are of the same
shape, same size
Basement membrane

17. Muscle tissue

18. Dyes, stained tissue

19. Different sizes,
shapes and in
the wrong place

20. Blast cells

31. Go phase

39. Finite life style