An idea about the origin of cancer

[nicobzz]

Hi All

I was a medicine student in France, but I'm still very interested in biology

After hearing that in cancer there is lot of mutation in gene for proteins which separate the two part of the DNA. So i think that the cause of cancer come from that if there is too much mutations in those genes for those proteins, then there is to much torque in the DNA, so it's harder to separate the two part of the DNA and it's harder to repair the DNA, by this way there is more and more mutations in the DNA, sometimes mutations on oncogenes which them really create the cancer.

[JackBean]

medicine student which is still interested in biology? That sounds scary.

[jonmoulton]

Hmm. If instead of "So I think that the cause of cancer ..." you wrote "So I think that a factor sometimes increasing cancer ..." then I think you have a reasonable and testable hypothesis. However, one-size-fits-all cancer mechanisms are often proposed and quashed by data. Perhaps this contributes to some cancers, but there are many paths arriving there. There is an amazingly complex landscape of genetic variations in cancers.

[Ahsmeah]

Hmm. If instead of "So I think that the cause of cancer ..." you wrote "So I think that a factor sometimes increasing cancer ..." then I think you have a reasonable and testable hypothesis. However, one-size-fits-all cancer mechanisms are often proposed and quashed by data. Perhaps this contributes to some cancers, but there are many paths arriving there. There is an amazingly complex landscape of genetic variations in cancers.

Excluding the last sentence, that's pretty much what I was going to say, but with a smaller vocabulary. Hehe


Maybe you should get your hypothesis tested, there. :D