[GucciGoosie]

I’m not a biologist by any means, but after a few late nights being bored and researching i wanted to ask you guys if this is a good baseline idea.
So from my research I learned that, like all organisms, all cancer cells need oxygen to survive. I also found that White blood cells get there oxygen from plasma. i was wondering if we could some how use this to our advantage. Such as starving the cancer cells of oxygen an keeping the white blood cells alive.

[josem]

Good idea. But how can starve cancer cells specifically, without affecting normal cells.

[SATYRA]

So from my research I learned that, like all organisms, all cancer cells need oxygen to survive. I also found that White blood cells get there oxygen from plasma. i was wondering if we could some how use this to our advantage. Such as starving the cancer cells of oxygen an keeping the white blood cells alive.

[Patrick]

You would need to target a physiological requirement the cancer cells have that are not for normal cells.

[nikki nemo]

Cancer cells are cells that divide relentlessly, forming solid tumors or flooding the blood with abnormal cells. Cell division is a normal process used by the body for growth and repair.

[nikki nemo]

Cancer cells differ from normal cells in the body in many ways. 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.

[claudepa]

There are necrotic areas in tumor where cancer cells are able to survive without oxygen. They use fermentation instead of phosphorylative oxydation to make ATP

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