Assertion: tumor's cell | /r/CapableOf | become cancerous
Facets:
value: by damage
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: Errors in the instructions can cause the cell to stop its normal function and may allow a cell to become cancerous.
text: A mutation in a DNA repair gene may mean that other errors aren't corrected, leading cells to become cancerous.
text: This could cause a cell to become cancerous.
text: Together, these mutations may cause the cells to become cancerous.
text: When a mistake is not corrected, a cell can become cancerous.
text: What causes cells to become cancerous?
text: If anything goes wrong during this complicated process, a cell may become cancerous.
text: But we do know many of the risk factors for this cancer (see Pancreatic Cancer Risk Factors) and how some of them cause cells to become cancerous.
text: Normal cells become cancerous when a series of mutations leads the cell to continue to grow and divide out of control, and, in a way, a cancer cell is a cell that has achieved a sort of immortality.
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).