What do abnormal cells look like?
Normal cells are uniform and arranged in tissues in an orderly manner. When you poke and prod normal tissue, it’s soft. Abnormal cells have a large irregularly shaped nucleus and a relatively small cytoplasm. They have large variations in cell size and shape, disorganised arrangement of cells and poorly defined tissue boundary. The cells lose specialised functions, and many cells are produced quickly. All this means that the resulting tissue is very stiff compared with normal tissue.
