How are cancer and mitosis related?

Cancer is simply uncontrolled cell division. Mitosis is the process of cells growing and dividing, thereby replicating themselves.

Mitosis is always strictly controlled in cells; for example, the regulator proteins prevent a cell from dividing if it contains errors in its DNA.

Furthermore, a number of processes are known to promote cell growth. For instance, cells can divide in response to specific signals.

A malfunction in either of these two processes would result in uncontrolled mitosis and cancer. For instance, a cell may develop cancer if the stimulant continued stimulating when it shouldn't have or if the regulator proteins weren't regulating correctly.

Cancer is related to mitosis because cancer is essentially uncontrolled cell division, which is a process that occurs during mitosis. Mitosis is the process by which cells replicate and divide to produce two identical daughter cells. In cancer, mutations or abnormalities occur in the genes that regulate cell division, causing cells to divide uncontrollably. This results in the formation of tumors and can lead to the spread of cancerous cells throughout the body. So, cancer and mitosis are related because cancer involves the dysregulation of the normal mitotic process.