Hypoxia and Medicine

What is a relation between cancer and hypoxia?

O. Warburg

Public Comments

1. they both destroys healthy tissues.
2. a key relation, as it is the primary cause of cancer
3. cancer-un controlled growth of cells or no.of cells is called cancer.hypoxia-deminished oxyen supply to cells.
4. If you are referring to cause and effect, cancer involving lung tissue or upper air conduits (pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi) can block the normal physiologic flow of air (and therefore oxygen) and cause hypoxia.