What is the connection between skin cancer and mitosis?

1 Answer
Jul 17, 2017

Cancer would not occur were it not for mitosis.

Explanation:

Mitosis is how cells reproduce. Cancer cells under go uncontrolled mitosis in which due to an abnormality in the cell's DNA it replicates more rapidly than normal cells and continues to replicate unlike normal cells which go through mitosis a set number of times and die.