The knowledge built up over the last 30 years of research on cancer and based mainly on the reductionist method, postulates that the disease is genetic. In other words, it results from mutations that have occurred in certain genes of the genoma of the cell, especially of those involved in mechanisms of repairing DNA. One eminent and controversial virologist and professor of cell and molecular biology at the University of California in Berkeley, Peter Duesberg, suggests that the change from a normal cell into a cancerous cell is triggered off not by genetic mutations but by instability in the chromosomes, so extensive that it leads to the formation of what Duesberg calls a 'new species' of cell. This same scientist has also asserted, since 1987, that HIV does not cause Aids.
Cancer; genetic; oncology; aneuploidia