Breast Cancer is a disease that originates from breast tissue in the inner lining of milk ducts, which supply the ducts with milk. Breast Cancer cells move from their site and invade the bones of the patient, thus decreasing the chances of survival. Cancer is a terminal disease and the article tries to explain how it forms.
The article “Tracking breast cancer cells on the move” by Gomis is important since it explains how breast cancer cells invade bones. The article serves the purpose of examining the role of NOG, a gene that is essential in bone development and its role in breast cancer. The materials in the article help to show the role of NOG.
When cancer cells that cause brain tumors are on the move, they attack the human body leading to the development of tumors. NOG does this in two ways. Firstly,
The process of increasing the total number of osteoclasts does the escalation of bone degeneration. This provides enough space for the metastatic cells that cause cancer to reside. Secondly, the brain cancer causing cells are kept in a stem-cell-like state. This ensures that they propagate thus forming new tumors (Gomis 2012). The questions that arise are; why is it difficult to get a cure for cancer? Can breast cancer affect men? Is breast cancer heredity?
Works Cited
Gomis, Roger. “Tracking breast cancer cells on the move.” 2012. Biology News Net. Web.