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six hallmarks of cancers

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1 - resisting cell death
2. sustaining proliferative signaling
3. evading growth suppressors
4. activating invasion and metastasis
5. enabling replicative immortality
6. inducing angiogenesis
(immune system evasion)
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Mesenchymal cell origin (bone, cartilage, fat)

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sarcoma

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Epithelial cell origin (breast, colon, lung)

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carcinoma

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Secondary lymphoid tissue (mature lymphoid cells)

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lymphoma

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Progenitor lymphoid cells, primary lymphoid tissue

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leukemia

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3 specific alterations in cells that can lead to cancer

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  • alternations in
    cell proliferation
    damage response
    cell growth
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cell proliferation

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MAPK (ras/raf/mek/erk)

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damage response

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P53

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cell growth

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Akt, mTOR

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3 requirements for cancer progression

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  1. deregulated signaling pathways
  2. accumulated genetic alterations
  3. support from the tumor microenvironment
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5 different things that can contribute to genetic instability

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  1. defect in DNA replication
  2. defects in DNA repair
  3. defects in cell-cycle checkpoint mechanisms
  4. mistakes in mitosis
  5. abnormal chromosome numbers
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3 pathways that lead to mutation in cancer

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  1. mutation in coding sequence
  2. gene amplification
  3. chromosome rearrangement
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in order for cancer to occur what needs to be turned off and what need to turned on

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off - TSGs

on - oncogenes

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What’s in a tumor?

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  • CAF
  • EC
  • PC
  • CSC
  • CC
    ICs
    Invasion Cancer cell
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two most commonly mutated genes in human cancer

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p53 and pten

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A normal gene which, when altered by mutation, becomes an oncogene that can contribute to cancer.

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proto oncogene

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a gene that in certain circumstances can transform a cell into a tumor cell.

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oncogene

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proto oncogene gaining of function

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oncogene

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TSG loss of function

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oncogene

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type of oncogene

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RAS

21
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which cells really cause cancer?

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progenitor/stem cells

22
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CSC posses some of the biological properties of normal stem cells

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  • indefinite self-replication
  • asymmetric cell division
  • resistance to toxic agents (chemotherapy), in part due to elevated ABC transporter expression
23
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properties of cancer stem cells

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  • self renewal
  • resistance to cell death
  • differentiation
  • resistance to chemo and rad therapy
24
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self renewal

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tumorigenesis

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resistance to cell death

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tumor progression

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differentiation

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cancer cell heterogeneity

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resistance to chemo and rad therapy

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treatment failure and relapse

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the spread of a cancer or other disease from one organ or part of the body to another without being directly connected with it

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metastatis

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occurs in development, for example, when gastrulation epithelial cells transition to motile mesenchymal cells.

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type 1 emt

30
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when secondary epithelial or endothelial cells move to interstitial spaces in wound healing or chronic inflammation, resulting in fibrosis.

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type 2 emt

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occurs when epithelial tumor cells migrate beyond a primary tumor and metastasize

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type 3 emt

32
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the metastable cell phenotype

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epithelial and mesenchymal traits

33
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Alterations in WNT Pathway Can Lead to

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colon cancer

34
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overexertion of b-catenin can lead to

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cancer

35
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if you have breast cancer it can prefer to spread to

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liver lung brain

36
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colon cancer spread

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liver and lung

37
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gastric cancer

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stomach and esophagus

38
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lung cancer spread

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adrenal gland, liver, bone, brain

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pancreatic cancer spread

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lung and liver

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prostate cancer spread to

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bone

41
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keeps the Wnt signaling pathway inactive when the cell is not exposed to Wnt

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APC protein

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if apc is not present then there will be a proliferation of

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Wnt (causing stem cell cancer)

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