• Question: how long does it take to grow cancer cells?

    Asked by emilyaucklandandcf to Becky on 27 Jun 2013.
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      Rebecca Cook answered on 27 Jun 2013:


      Cancer cells grow very quickly, most double in population size in 24 hours. The difficult part is getting the cells from a patient and start growing them in dishes. Luckily scientists did this a lot in the past, and now share these cells with other scientists so you can just get some cells from another scientist instead of a patient!

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