Clinically significant cancer evolves from transient mutated and/or aneuploid neoplasia by cell fusion to form unstable syncytia that give rise to ecologically viable parasite species.

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Following the idea of Duesberg and Rasnick (Cell Motil Cytoskeleton 2000; 47:81-107) that cancer is a separate species of organism, the ecology of cancer as a parasite is examined. The most important ecological feature of cancer is its ability to evolve. The mutation hypothesis and the "unstable...

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