What if Everything You Knew About the Cause of Cancer Was Wrong?

Posted on April 12, 2010 by David Oliver
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Back in the day, a doctor from deep East Texas opined as follows about an alleged carcinogen: "It messes with your DNA and everybody knows that if your DNA gets messed up it can lead to cancer." Multimillion dollar verdicts were founded on little more than that sort of speculation.

Yet, what if that which everybody knows about cancer is wrong? The prevailing paradigm, that cancer comes from a single cell that develops a mutation and then grows out of control, is beginning to show a lot of cracks. Why do cancer outbreaks mimic those of pathogenic epidemics? Why would population mixing lead to cancer? Read about it at Carcinogenesis in "Hypothesis: Towards the Origin of Cancer Epidemics and Pathogenesis".

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