Increasing Rates Of Cancer

Critical Thinking Question #1 / Chapter 23, Sections 23.1- 23.5, 23.8 "Cancer” Name Institutional Affiliation Critical Thinking Question #1 / Chapter 23, Sections 23.1- 23.5, 23.8 "Cancer” Increasing rates of cancer are associated with increasing age. As age-associated changes continue to accumulate in biochemical processes that regulate genes, the risks of cancer also increase as one ages. In Chapter 17, Starr and McMillan (2010) argue that as one’s body ages, there are numerous changes in the functional and structural efficiency of multiple organ systems of the body. Cancer cells are different from the normal cells in both function and structure. Cancer cells will have enlarged nucleus, altered surface proteins, and lack many features that normal cells otherwise have. The cells often grow uncontrollably and invade other surrounding tissues in a mechanism known as metastasis. A number of fact...