These cells divide more rapidly
than healthy cells do and continue to accumulate, forming a lump or mass.
Because cancer cells have a poorer tolerance to
heat than healthy cells, infrared light is just the ticket to kill them off — and stop potential cancers in their tracks.
Cancer cells grow much bigger and faster, and make copies of themselves much faster,
than healthy cells do.
Cancer cells tend to be under greater
stress than healthy cells, so Oyer and her colleagues are investigating whether manipulating Sigma 1 can launch a downstream effect that cripples those cells» stress response.
Cancer cells exert stronger mechanical forces on their
environment than healthy cells, so such nanoparticles could one day be used to test for cancer, she says.
Instead of trying to kill cancer cells
faster than healthy cells, the researchers targeted the enzyme called BCR - ABL, which becomes dysfunctional in CML.
Because cancer cells are already in a more stressed
state than healthy cells, the radicals may push the cancer cells over the edge, killing them while healthy cells remain unharmed.
As noted earlier, senolytic drugs are only able to effectively kill senescent cells while sparing normal cells because senescent cells are much more
reliant than healthy cells on the activity or expression of specific genes involved in cell survival.
Studies of dogs and cancer detection are based on the fact that cancerous cells release different metabolic waste
products than healthy cells in the human body.
Many human enzymes use the metal to catalyze important reactions, but cancer cells seem to need it more
than healthy cells.
Cancer cells have more glucose receptors
than healthy cells so they take in more sugar than healthy cells.