Cancer cell

Portions of the cancercells were treated with dilute boiling caustic potash until a thin film of it floated on the surface of the liquid.

French experimentators want to have observed, that the cancercell is most sensible for radiation during the cellpartition.

On a drop of a cancercell-suspension, 1ᶜᶜ being added to normal serum and being allowed to stand for some hours at 37°, it was found, that a part of these cells had been dissolved.

[…] wherein alcoholic extracts from the urine of cancer or non-cancer patients are brought into reaction with the sera of rabbits immunised beforehand by intravenous injections with isolated and washed cancercells.

[…] it could later on be proven that the normal substance of Freund was indeed a proteolytic enzyme with cancercell-dissolving property.

How does a cancercell arise? […] The difference between a normal cell and a cancercell resides in their genes. Transformation of a normal cell to a cancercell thus requires a change in the genetic material.

However, the very same phenomenon of cancercells is regarded in a different context, a medical one, in terms of normative attributes such as "pathological" or "malfunction".

Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as oxaliplatin and etoposide, work in different ways to stop the growth of cancercells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing.