Sentences with phrase «body growing out of control»

The notion of a part of the body growing out of control for no apparent reason is bad enough, but the aggressive and expensive treatments used for cancer, such as surgery, radiation and chemotherapy can be frightening as well.

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As a physics teacher, I teach the therapeutic effects of gamma radiation in radiotherapy, along with the associated dangers (radiation can cause cells to become cancerous as well as kill cells that are already cancerous), but a common misconception among students is that cancer cells are rather like viruses or bacteria, a sort of alien cell that has entered the body, growing out of control with little relation to the surrounding cells.

Our bodies tolerate a wide range of resident microbes, but when these bugs grow out of control, the immune system hits them with a slew of fighter cells.

If these pathogenic bacteria grows out of control and enter our blood stream, they can be transported through the body and cause inflammation.

When you ingest foods containing these ingredients, the yeast in your body feeds on them and can quickly grow out of control.

The old view was that there are random mutations that cause the cells to disregard regulating signals from the body and just continue replicating and growing out of control.

Cancer starts when cells (internal or external parts of the body) grow too rapidly and get out of control, and as a result, invade its surrounding tissue.