title: Cancer is a hybrid produced by a relationship between a plant bacterium and a mammalian cell: an original concept.
abstract: Facts presented in previously published articles (1-7) support the conclusion that the malignant cell, although of animal origin, metabolizes and respires anaerobically. Facts also support the conclusion that plant bacterial conidia (spores) derived, under duress, from one of the several groups belonging to the Ascomycete family or from the Staphylococcus aureus coagulase positive micro-organism are present intracellularly. It is this group of conidia, when formed, that survives as a primitive oval, spheroidal type of a unicell. They are identical in all respects to the various carbohydrate, protein, and fat molecules. Although these conidia have lost their original outside cell wall and all their enzymes and metabolites, they survive none the less as bacteria by retaining within their cytoplasm a genetically viable anion acceptor complex (oxidant), and their asexual procreative unit. It is this oxidant factor that survives within a sac or cell, as long as it is free of the atmospheric environment. Ultimately, with an ensuing circulating but compatible flow of blood by the host, there develops an annealing process whereby the genes of each species unite to form a plant animal intracellular hybridization. This somatic association accounts for the origin of the metabolic and respiratory anaerobiosis and also for the subsequent growth and pathophysiology that occurs in those living human beings suffering from the various malignant diseases.
authors.forename: M W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: White
mesh_terms: D000693:Anaerobiosis; D000818:Animals; D001203:Ascomycota / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D002473:Cell Wall; D003030:Coagulase; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation; D008322:Mammals; D008954:Models, Biological; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D016877:Oxidants; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D010944:Plants / Q000382:microbiology; D013171:Spores, Bacterial; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D003030:Coagulase; D016877:Oxidants