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Metaastasis Research Paper

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Metastasis causes the most deaths in cancer yet this process remains one of the most enigmatic aspects of the disease. Metastasis has a two-phase process first phase is the physical translocation of the cancer cell and the second encompasses the cancer cell to develop into a metastatic lesion. Carcinogenesis is known as the formation of cancer, were normal cells transform into cancer cells. This process is by changes at the cellular, genetic and epigenetic level. It reprograms the cell to under go uncontrolled cell division by growing a malignant mass.
Psychological stress is when people are under mental, physical or emotional pressure. People who have cancer or have just found out they have cancer can have more physical, emotional and social effects of the disease that contributes to stress in there life. When that happens they try to manage stress with bad behaviors with smoking, drinking and not seeing there life in a good way. Stress can affect a tumor's ability to grow and spread. In reasearchers the Human cancer cell that they grown in a laboratory have been found that the stress hormone norepinephrine, part of are bodies fight-or-flight response system, may have promote angiogenesis and metastasis.
Cancer has a big change in metabolism, they get a higher …show more content…

However, they difference in their actions are catecholamines have different outcomes on the heart, blood vessels, kidney, liver. Are the opposite, effects such as increasing/decreasing glucose levels or increasing/ decreasing heart rate or constricting/dilating blood vessels. Cortisol, has the most effect on blood glucose, increasing it so its available for the body to use during stressful periods. Cortisol also has other actions on white blood cells, water metabolism, and has been shown to be necessary for catecholamines to exert their full

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