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Charles Wright's avatar

On bacteria and cancer, I am reading up on one of the Rockefeller's first cancer man, Peyton Rous, who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1966. His Prize was for "his discovery of tumour-inducing viruses.” I'm not so sure about the role of viruses in inducing viruses. I think they are associated with viruses, but correlation is not causation. It's unclear to me.

In any case, Peyton Rous did mention bacteria during his Nobel Lecture, December 13, 1966, which he titled: "The Challenge to Man of the Neoplastic Cell." Here's the part about bacteria:

"An exceedingly important trait of most neoplastic cells is their unnatural excitability which sometimes renders them extremely active on what seems slight encouragement. Infection with inflammatory bacteria often has this effect."

Link to the Lecture from Nobel: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1966/rous/lecture/

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MatKelly's avatar

I read recently that the elevated liver markers were due theoretically to the flushing of toxic cancer debris and associated bodily responses, which returned to normal levels after treatment: More study needed.

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