How Do Cancer Cells Talk to Each Other?

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This lesson will examine cell communication between normal cells and then describe how cell communication differs in cancer cells.

Goals and Objectives 1. To explain normal cell communication via signal-cell transduction pathway 2. To use the information from "Inside Cancer Hallmarks of Cancer to describe how cancer cells communicate. 3. To motivate students to hypothesize why cancer cells talk differently.

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