1. Objective Warm UP: What are the 6 stages of Mitosis?
What: Compare mitotic stages of cancer cells to normal cells.
How: By Looking at cells during different stages of Mitosis in cancer & normal cells.
Why: So that we can understand what people who have gone through cancer treatments feel.
Warm UP:
What are the 6 stages of Mitosis?
What happens during Metaphase?
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2. The Cell Cycle and Cancer
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3. Ted Talk Audio
Answer the following Questions during the video:
Finish this sentence:
Growth occurs when ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What is a mutation?
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Radiation works by…..
4. What is the problem with healthy cells during radiation and chemotherapy treatments?

4. Google: Glencoe cancer cell virtual lab
Virtual Lab Website
Google:
Glencoe cancer cell virtual lab

5. Glencoe Cancer Cell Virtual Lab
If this site doesn’t load the first time google:
Glencoe cancer cell virtual lab

6. Henrietta Lacks Video

7. The Stages of the Cell Cycle
1. Click on picture for cell cycle animation –
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8. There are several factors that regulate the cell cycle and assure a cell divides correctly.
1.Before a cell divides, the DNA is checked to make sure it has replicated correctly.
If DNA does not copy itself correctly, a gene mutation occurs.
DNA replication animation:click on DNA picture
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9. 2. Chemical Signals tell a cell when to start and stop dividing.
(Target cells animation: click on go sign)
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10. Neighboring cells communicate with dividing cells to regulate their growth also.
(Normal contact inhibition animation: click on petri dish)
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11. Cancer is a disease of the cell cycle
Cancer is a disease of the cell cycle. Some of the body’s cells divide uncontrollably and tumors form.
Tumors in Liver
Tumor in Colon
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12. DNA mutations disrupt the cell cycle.
Mutations may be caused by the following carcinogens:
1. radiation
2. smoking
3. Pollutants
4. chemicals
5. viruses
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13. While normal cells will stop dividing if there is a mutation in the DNA, cancer cells will continue to divide with mutation.
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14. Due to DNA mutations, cancer cells ignore the chemical signals that start and stop the cell cycle.
2 animations of cancer cells dividing: click on picture
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15. Due to DNA mutations, cancer cells cannot communicate with neighboring cells. Cells continue to grow and form tumors.
Skin cancer
(cancer cells dividing: click on picture.)
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16. SUMMARY Cancer Cells Normal Cell Division
Mutations occur in the DNA when it is replicated.
2. Chemical signals that start and stop the cell cycle are ignored.
3. Cells do not communicate with each other and tumors form.
Normal Cell Division
1. DNA is replicated properly.
2. Chemical signals start and stop the cell cycle.
3. Cells communicate with each other so they don’t become overcrowded.
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17. Treating Cancers
Cancer treatments include drugs that can stop cancer cells from dividing.
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