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WHAT IS CANCER?Cancer is not a single condition, but a set of many diseases that share common characteristics.Cancer is primarily a disorder caused by DNA mutations and epigenetic changes that make an abnormal cell multiply uncontrollably with the potential to invade other parts of the body, rather than the natural immune system response, which leads to cell death.[1], [2]The cancer researchers Douglas Hannahan and Robert Weinberg believe that cancer at a molecular level could be described in 10 basic steps.The first six were established in 2000 [3] another 4 in 2011 [4], which are two enabling hallmarks and two emerging characteristics.They proposed that the properties of a cancer cell are:
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