The Gizmodo reporter apparently got confused by the paper
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)01127-8
It’s looking like fungal DNA is being found inside tumor cells. Possibly, non-human DNA contaminating the nucleus may mess things up and cause uncontrolled reproduction.
I’d be interested in your take on this paper.
I downloaded the pdf and will read the whole thing.
Looks interesting, the methodology is outside of my expertise but the concepts are not. Cell is a respected journal with good reviewers, if the association is real it might be that the method of the cell attacking the fungus “flips a switch” to dysregulate cell growth.
Certainly fungal INFECTIONS are common in cancer patients, but treating and eradicating the fungi in that case does not seem to downregulate the cancer, unfortunately.