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Cancer is currently explained as being mutated body cells growing uncontrollably, thus forming a tumor, after which some of those cells split off and form another tumor elsewhere. This process is fully compatible with the growth of fungus: during uncontrollable cell proliferation unstructured tissue is formed, in which fungus immediately establishes itself. Alternately, it could be that fungus induces body cells to mutate, growing uncontrollably, because this increases the amount of unstructured tissue, in which cancer thrives.
In a column of NRC’s science special (newspaper), dated 1st of June 2013, Piet Borst M.D., Ph.D. wrote of immunotherapy to combat cancer. In 1983, he was appointed director at Nederlands Kanker Instituut-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. In said column, he explains the surface of tumor cells has receptors that absorb passing molecules from the blood stream. A tumor needs those molecules for growth. Immunotherapy, as applied in case of cancer, slows the growth of cancer down, by stimulating the production of antibodies. It is also explained the immune system contains T-cells. Those are white blood cells that recognize and kill invasive cells.
However, it appears that cancer cells can hide well their abnormal properties from the immune system. Nonetheless, some kinds of T-cells can penetrate a tumor to attack it from within. Immunotherapy is used to isolate, multiply and deploy those T-cells, yet they are aggressive. As a consequence, they are dangerous to the body. Moreover, they are restricted by way of ingenious regulatory systems to prevent auto-immune disease. Tumor cells skillfully exploit these systems to repel the attack of the aggressive T-cells.
Three times, tumor has been described as an independent organism, efficiently taking care of its own survival. Firstly, it gets the nourishment it needs; secondly, it hides from the attacking T-cells; thirdly, it repels their attack. The genetical explanation of cancer may be acceptable insofar it is possible that animal evolution has not been able to prevent cell proliferation arising from mutations. On the contrary, it seems highly unlikely that coïncidental cell proliferation systematically shall result in an organism that efficiently turns on its host by using a plethora of tactics.
Through natural selection, evolution incessantly causes the advancement of organisms that are better adapted to their environment, as they are more likely to survive competitors. Evolution does not produce organisms that systematically destroy their own existence. Being an independent organism and taking care of its own survival, tumor is alien to the body. This proves it evolved outside of the body. Next to that, it may be obvious that it is a fungus. A fungus evolves incredibly fast, so it can defend its tumor with ingenious tactics. Cancer Is A Fungus shall be recognized in the future by every discovery proving the way a tumor or a seperate cancer cell systematically ensures its survival.
Recently, a group of oncologists optimistically declared they will be better able to map the genes that supposedly cause cancer. In this way, they will be able to develop separate therapies, in accordance with the requirements of each gen. Thereby, cancer should be pushed back drastically. They presume all of those genes to be able to produce the same tumor, which is deadly and adaptive. That is nonsense in my opinion. The more fitting explanation is that the one fungus has evolved in such a way, that it understands the weak genes and manipulates them. That oncological research should not be attacked in a frontal assault, but convinced to research the genetical and molecular mechanisms of that fungus. In this unexplored area, Nobel Prizes are to be expected.
This insight is sufficiently reasonable to rehabilitate Simoncini, which opens up the way for him to be awarded the Nobel Prize. However, I believe it is much more important – especially for him – that his therapy should be commonly applied to the treatment of cancer patients, so that millions may survive. To that goal, I can nor am willing to dedicate myself. I consider it my job to acquire repeatedly such fundamental insights in different areas.