Assertion: tumor's cell | /r/CapableOf | become abnormal
Facets:
value: by damage
type: CAUSE
value: slowly
type: MANNER
value: increasingly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: A cell can become abnormal when part of a gene is lost (deleted), when part of a chromosome is rearranged and ends up in the wrong place (translocation), or when an extremely small defect occurs in the DNA, which results in an abnormal DNA "blueprint" and production of a defective protein occurs.
text: However, other cells pass on mutations and new cells slowly become increasingly abnormal until they eventually become cancerous.
text: Sometimes these signals can go wrong, and the cell becomes abnormal.
text: The answer is that most cancer cells are indeed detected and removed by our immune systems.﻿﻿ Cells in our immune cells called natural killer cells have the job of finding cells that have become abnormal so that they can be removed by other cells in our immune system.
text: Carcinogens are chemicals or enviromnental factors that may cause normal cells to become abnormal and cancerous by damage or mutate a cells genetic material (DNA and RNA).