Cancer

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Clues

  • A mass of abnormal cells (6)
  • Adding a methyl group to something (11)
  • Cell death (9)
  • Codes for a protein that stimulates cell division (5, 8)
  • Mutation that occurs in individual cells after fertilisation (8)
  • Thought to increase a woman's risk of developing breast cancer by stimulating cell division of certain breast cells or even by direct introduction of mutations (9)
  • Tumour that can mestastasize (9)
  • Tumour that invades and destroys surrounding tissues (6)
  • Type of abnormal methylation that creates oncogenes (15)
  • Type of abnormal methylation that stops the transcription of tumour suppressor genes (16)

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