Cancer: the role of oxygen in fungal-induced carcinogenesis

Abstract The mammalian cancer cell demonstrates that this animal cell respires and metabolizes anaerobically. It not only maintains a strong viability but can enlarge as a tumor, to spread circumferentially, to the lymph nodes and distal areas. Our studies with supportive and tantalizing evidence indicate that cancer is due to the intracellular presence of an invasive obligate asexual anaerobe microorganism. Genetically, this anaerobe possesses a (nonmetal) electronegative element compound. This element compound is one that has the affinity to accept and add electrons in a chemical reaction. The presence of this obligate anaerobe with its specific chemistry, along with the host’s circulating flow of blood, are the critical cofactors in carcinogenesis.