[rbg81]

Interesting, but I don’t follow the part where he says cancer is a “preprogrammed response to stress”. Does that mean that those of us who don’t stress don’t get cancer? Everything I’ve read previously suggest that cancer occurs due to genetic mistakes in the reproduction of cells, leading to cancer cells that reproduce out of control. Kind of like what might happen if you make a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy..... If the copy process is sloppy, eventually you may end up with a copy that is a transmogrification of the original.

[dangerdoc]

Stress is a generic term in biology.

Stress can be heat, cold, mutagens, redox, too little nutrient, too much nutrient, too little oxygen or too much, high or low osmolality, etc.

They aren’t referring to the emotion elicited by an Obama speech.

[muawiyah]

The guy is simply saying that model is wrong ~ that the genes or DNA stretches within genes that served to proliferate slime milds are still there waiting for a signal ~ and when that happens, Katy bar the door!

See, a real "Creationist" point of view in that ~ you don't need MUTATIONS ~ it was there all along!

[tanknetter]

Interesting, but I don’t follow the part where he says cancer is a “preprogrammed response to stress”. Does that mean that those of us who don’t stress don’t get cancer?

"Stress" is, I imagine, being used in the broadest possible sense. Being out in the sun a lot causes "stress" to skin cells. That "stress" could therefore be the "key" that "unlocks" the skin cancer genetic trigger.

Same thing with smoking, which causes "stress" in lung tissue (triggering lung cancer). Or eating copious amounts of red meat, which correlates to all kinds of cancer (pancreatic, for instance).