Lectures For Lifelong Learners!

This presentation effectively illustrates how healthy cells become cancer cells. The conversion of a healthy cell to a cancerous cell is a process referred to as transformation. This process involves a series of changes that provides a growth advantage for the transformed cell within a surrounding tissue. These changes have been observed at the cellular and molecular levels for a wide variety of cancers. With these cellular and molecular insights, scientists have been able to characterize and identify common traits displayed by the many cancers. Collectively, the mechanisms providing growth advantages for the transformed cells are commonly known as the Hallmarks of Cancer.