After reading about cancer this is an unfair disease… Each cancer is unique most cancers are named after the part of the body where the cancer first starts. Cancer comprises a group of diseases that have in common abnormal and uncontrolled cell growth. Ways cancer spreads throughout the body: Metastasis of cancer through the Lymphatic system, venous system, direct extension from one organ to another: These are three causing cancer agents. Chemicals capable of producing …showed first 75 words of 549 total…

…showed last 75 words of 549 total…may self-destruct. Now, researchers have found one of the first proteins produced in this chain of command. p53 is actually a tumor suppressor, and that it is altered in the majority of colon cancers. Since then, mutant forms of p53 have cropped up in so many tumors and aroused so much interest that Science hailed the p53 protein as the "Molecule of the Year" in 1993. The p53 gene was originally discovered in 1979 by Arnold Levine.