Everything You Need to Know About Cancer and the MCAT

In this episode of the Jack Westin MCAT Podcast, Phil Hawkins, Lead Instructor and Director of MCAT Prep and Harvard Medical Student Azaii Calderón Muñiz discuss cell replication. More specifically, Azaii and Phil discuss cancer. In this episode you will learn how cells replicate, how cancer bypasses normal genetic barriers, and what you need to know for the MCAT.   

0:00 Intro 

5:43 Cell Cycle 

13:51 The MCAT and Cancer 

16:00 Replicating DNA 

20:45 Genes in Cancer 

38:15 What Cancer Cells Actually Do 

1:00:48 Outro  

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