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Cancer as Uncontrolled Cell Division

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Cancer is a family of diseases sharing one mechanism: uncontrolled cell division caused by a breakdown in the cell cycle's regulatory checkpoints.

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A single small replication error, uncorrected and passed to daughter cells, can compound across many divisions until checkpoint control fails.

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A single mutation rarely causes cancer outright — the disease typically results from accumulated errors across many cell generations.