LATEST ASPECTS ON THE BIOLOGY OF CANCER AND METASTASES

  • Amanda Bernardini Piacentini UNESP Rio claro
  • Hércules Menezes Instituto de Biociências - UNESP Rio Claro
Keywords: Cancer, Metastases, Cancerous Cells

Abstract

Benign and malign tumors are clone expansions of differentiated cells with proliferation and adaption assets and resist control by organism. Malign tumors form secondary tumors by the displacement of cancerigenous cells from one place to another in the metastases process. The latter are the result of good adaptation of cancerigenous cells in the new microenvironment requiring adaptive qualities of cells from the originating tumor and from the place in which the secondary tumor has installed itself.

Author Biographies

Amanda Bernardini Piacentini, UNESP Rio claro
Graduação em Ciências Biológicas pela Universidade Estadual Paulista “Julio de Mesquita Filho” - UNESP Campus RIO CLARO. E-mail: amanda.piacentini@yahoo.com.br
Hércules Menezes, Instituto de Biociências - UNESP Rio Claro
Docente Doutor no Departamento de Bioquímica e Microbiologia no Instituto de Biociências – Universidade Estadual Paulista “Julio de Mesquita Filho” - UNESP Campus RIO CLARO. E-mail: hermes@rc.unesp.br
Published
2013-02-08
Section
Artigos de Revisão