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Cancer Treatments: Targeting the Cell Cycle

Cancer Biology: Tumors, Spread, and Treatment

9th Grade·Science·TEKS

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Explain how treatments like chemotherapy and radiation target rapidly dividing cells by exploiting cell cycle mechanisms.

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Cancer Biology: Tumors, Spread, and Treatment

9th Grade · Science · TEKS

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Learners will describe how uncontrolled cell division leads to tumor formation and metastasis, identify risk factors, and explain how cancer treatments target the cell cycle.

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112.42(b)(6)(C)Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) · Science · 9th Grade

relate disruptions of the cell cycle to how they lead to the development of diseases such as cancer.

Open Global Standard:OGS.10.CB.7