Chapter 23.5, Problem 21BYGO

Summary Introduction

To determine:

The type of lung tissue in which origination of lung cancer can be observed, and to describe the way by which lung cancer can kill the person.

Introduction:

Cancer is defined as the abnormal division of the growing cells. The cells have lost the ability to undergo apoptosis, but these cells undergo progressive differentiation. The mutation in a cluster of healthy cells also changes the sequence of DNA that causes cancer.