A Synopsis on our Theory on the Origin of Cancer

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A Synopsis of our Theory on the Origin of Cancer

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We believe that you have to go back to when life first originated on Earth about 4 billion years ago to discover how cancer originated. When you do that, you discover many fascinating connections between cancer and the origin of life. An important clue that caused us to begin this journey was how cancer cells resemble bacteria in many ways (see HeLa cells), and bacteria and viruses were the first lifeforms to evolve. This is why we began studying bacteria and viruses in earnest.

The mycoplasma bacteria forms an important part of our theory on the origin of cancer. We were very fortunate to find this Wikipedia article on mycoplasma, which explains how mycoplasma bacteria are responsible for many different kinds of cancer, such as breast cancer, colon cancer, stomach cancer, renal (kidney) cancer, and prostate cancer. We were also fortunate to find this article on cholesterol that mentions how the mycoplasma bacteria are one of the few bacteria that uses cholesterol. (Cholesterol is a factor, not only in heart disease, but also in cancer.)

Another important clue was this picture of a methanogen that shows their internal sterol membranes. These archaebacteria were the inventors of sterol membranes, which eventually became incorporated into the outer membranes of many eukaryotic cells that evolved after this, including human cells.

According to biologist Lynn Margulis, mycoplasma was the host bacterium for the endosymbiotic merging of the bacteria that formed the first eukaryotic cells, or cells that have a separate and distinct nucleus. (This graphic of the mycoplasma merging with the bdellovibrio, which became the mitochondria, to form the first eukaryotic cell fits in perfectly with our theory.) This means that every eukaryotic cell that evolved after this was a descendant of these cancer-causing bacteria, and this is why cancer occurs in many different organisms, and not just in humans.