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Posted on 07/26/2011 3:42:55 PM PDT by decimon
BERKELEY —
Cancer patients may view their tumors as parasites taking over their bodies, but this is more than a metaphor for Peter Duesberg, a molecular and cell biology professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Cancerous tumors are parasitic organisms, he said. Each one is a new species that, like most parasites, depends on its host for food, but otherwise operates independently and often to the detriment of its host.
In a paper published in the July 1 issue of the journal Cell Cycle, Duesberg and UC Berkeley colleagues describe their theory that carcinogenesis – the generation of cancer – is just another form of speciation, the evolution of new species.
“Cancer is comparable to a bacterial level of complexity, but still autonomous, that is, it doesn’t depend on other cells for survival; it doesn’t follow orders like other cells in the body, and it can grow where, when and how it likes,” said Duesberg. “That’s what species are all about.”
This novel view of cancer could yield new insights into the growth and metastasis of cancer, Duesberg said, and perhaps new approaches to therapy or new drug targets. In addition, because the disrupted chromosomes of newly evolved cancers are visible in a microscope, it may be possible to detect cancers earlier, much as today’s Pap smear relies on changes in the shapes of cervical cells as an indication of chromosomal problems that could lead to cervical cancer.
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And no doubt this ‘novel’ view of cancer, coming out of Berkeley, will result in a new movement to stop the destruction of the cancer species. In other words, better for the human to die.
I would put a sarcasm tag, but I’m not sure I’m being sarcastic!
Maybe they’re evolutionary drivers.
Sharks are truly ancient critters and are practically immune to cancers of any kind.
Just what we need, cancer lifeform philosophy.
Cancer is a fungus and it feeds on sugar. Sharks don’t have our Standard American Diet (SAD) of grains, pasta, flour, sugar, etc...
>Are cancers newly evolved species?<
Then the same goes for AIDS (whistling)..
You live long enough, you’ll get everything.
Done the cancer thing. Looking forward to arthitis, bad knees, heart disease and alsheimers.
Liberals evolved from a bovine colon cancer...that’s why they are so full of bullshi!t.
Only the ones that vote Democrat.
Robert Sanders could be anyone at the school. But the name of Peter Duesberg should ring a bell with some people here.
All we need is for someone to come out and SAY that cancer is caused by anthropogenic global warming.
Hmmm cancer a new species?
Read “Infected” by Scott Sigler, then “Contagious” by the same.
Great, great books!
bookmark
Does this mean that cancers are now eligible for protection under the Endangered Species Act?
nanobacteria?
Memory loss is the thing I’m worried about. And memory loss.
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