The Aging Healthfully Virtual Library - The Works of Majid Ali, M.D.
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Oxidative Theory of Cancer
From The Book RDA: Rats, Drugs and Assumptions

PART 3
A CANCER CELL BREATHES OXIDATIVE FIRES

    Cancer cells---like the mythical Chinese dragons---breathe oxidative fires. They produce prodigious amounts of hydrogen peroxide---one to two hundred times as much as is produced in non-cancer cells. Indeed, even immune cells at the height of their activity during their attack on microbes do not come close to cancer cells as regards the amounts of hydrogen peroxide produces.
Cancer cells---like the Greek crabs after which they are named---send out tiny projections that are in reality tentacles of oxidative coals, ready to light up the plasma proteins of oxidative flames. These projections are made up of tiny bits of the cell membrane as well as the cell soup of cancer cells. Frequently these tentacles get pinched off, form complexes with clotting proteins such as Factor VII, and ignite the oxidative flames that engulf other clotting proteins such as Factor IX and X. (Factors VII, IX, and X are among the substances that are essential for normal blood clotting.) The end result of these reactions is that the cancer cells get surrounded by fibrin nets that protect them from natural killer and other immune cells that normally search and destroy errant cells including cancer cells. These reactions also break contact of cancer cells with other malignant cells that surround them. Thus, cancer cells are freed and begin to  travel to other parts if the body, looking for new sites to seed and flourish.
Each cancer cell floating free in the blood, lymph and tissues carries simmering oxidative coals, ready to burst into oxidative flames at the slightest provocation, thereby triggering further oxidative reactions.

Simple molecules self-assemble into amino acids; amino acids self-assemble into functioning proteins

    I have considerable difficulty accepting drug medicine's prevailing gene theory of cancer and the attendant notions of the irreversibility of cancer. There are several fundamental observations in chemistry that challenge the assumption made in gene theory.
    Do genes really control everything? In their famous 1953 experiment, Stanley Miller and Harold Urey of the University of Chicago, subjected simple molecules such as ammonia, methane, hydrogen and water in a flask to repeated cycles of heating, electrification and cooling---conditions that are thought to have existed when life began on planet Earth. The experiment produced a crimson-colored primordial soup, rich in amino acids. Amino acids, of course, are the building blocks of protein, including enzymes.
    In subsequent years, origin-of-life research has been focused on the fundamental chemical mechanisms of prebiological molecules. Notable among these studies are those of Sidney Fox who clearly demonstrate that under primordial conditions, amino acids could self-assemble into proteins---without the intervention of genes. The next important step was to demonstrate whether or not proteins so formed could assemble themselves into tiny protein microspheres---the precursors of cells as we know them today. Experiments clearly showed that this assemblage does occur.

If the reactions within a sphere help make macromolecules, then we're talking about a cage in which thermal proteins could help build nucleic acids like RNA or DNA. Perhaps thermal proteins can also help synthesize true proteins...through this type of mechanism, cellular evolution could have arisen from microspheres.
Biologist Aristotle Pappelis
Quotes in Science News 146:59,1994

    I include these brief comments about the origin-of-life research to support my view that molecules have their own minds---their own sense of the natural order of things. Simple molecules, such as ammonia and water, larger molecules, such as amino acids, and complex molecules such as proteins (including) enzymes, can assemble and disassemble themselves without any organizing influence of genes. Such observations challenge the notions of irreversibility of cancer cells of drug medicine.
    Where does cancer begin? What are the initial energetic-molecular events that turn a healthy cell into a cancer cell? How does a cancer cell go into nonoxygen-utilizing mode---become an oxyphobe? How does it begin to produce prodigious amounts of hydrogen peroxide? How does it accumulate electrons on its surface and become strongly negatively charged?

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