In the accelerated phase, defective white blood cells divide uncontrollably and invade many of the body's organs.

These mutations can accumulate and may allow cells to grow and divide uncontrollably to form a tumor.

Constantly dividing cells have a higher risk of becoming malignant and develop cancer, dividing uncontrollably.

One of the hallmarks of cancer is that cells divide uncontrollably.

Cancer is a genetic disease: In order for cells to start dividing uncontrollably, genes that regulate cell growth must be damaged.

Mutations to these genes provide the signals for tumor cells to start dividing uncontrollably.

Cancer is what happens when genes within cells don't behave properly, making the cells divide uncontrollably...

That causes the cells to divide uncontrollably.

With ovarian cancer, cells of the ovary grow and divide uncontrollably.

Together, these mutations lead to cells dividing uncontrollably, a hallmark of cancer.