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What is contact inhibition?How it is related to tumours growth?

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Normal cells show a property called contact inhibition ,which inhibits uncontrolled growth.Cancer cells do not have this property .As a result ,cancerous cells divide continuosly giving rise to mass of tissue called tumours.
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