Friday, July 15, 2016

Are cancer tumors killing Australia's green turtles?

Co-carcinogenesis Hypothesis: A virus and carcinogen together cause cancer

Cancer occurs because a carcinogen inhibits the viral polymerase better than the human polymerase. When a virus infects the same cell as a carcinogen they interact.  Instead of the virus making what it wants in the host the infected cell is transformed into a cancer cell by the carcinogen. 

Previously I suggested that herpes viruses and benzene both use estrogen receptors to enter cells therefore they tend to cause cancer together
http://angelabiggs.blogspot.com/2016/06/cancer-and-receptors.html

Estrogen receptors and benzene references
http://angelabiggs.blogspot.com/2016/06/benzene-carcinogen-binds-estrogen.html

Great barrier reef oil spill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Great_Barrier_Reef_oil_spill

Benzene in the turtles' sea grass

https://books.google.com/books?id=NRPXN7T2YdUC&pg=PA314&lpg=PA314&dq=green+turtles+benzene&source=bl&ots=YQKbLN55FK&sig=YXrKr3tzwhl9YNeUKeYzSBzcgy8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6-fb3-vXNAhUX2WMKHUq5Bj4Q6AEITDAG#v=onepage&q=green%20turtles%20benzene&f=false

Fibropapillomatosis are the turtle tumors caused by the herpes virus. They say the tumors are benign not cancerous...but why do the tumors only form on some turtles when more are infected?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibropapillomatosis

Do the turtles with tumors have Benzene from the oil spill in 2010?


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