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- June 15, 2012 at 5:32 am
I'm so glad I found this page, cause I sort of came to a similar conclusion about 10 months ago after my body started exploding with new moles (I'm in my mid 30s), and my biopsies came back with positive stains on all melanoma tests. I was flabbergasted when the dermatologist told me it was because of the sun and to use sunscreen, because I'm from India and am very dark, and new moles at this age are unheard of where I come from. But most unlikely of all, my moles are all in non-sun exposed areas. The conventional wisdom didn't make sense. there had to be another story.
It may not be that long of a shot that Melanoma could be caused primarily by a long dormant virus. This hypothesis would seem to fit most facts known about melanoma. Melanoma runs in families, but according to one study, husbands and wives (obviously not genetically related) were found to have 6 times the rate of melanoma one would expect from a non-contagious disease.
Under the virus hypothesis, a person might have to have:1) exposure to the virus at some point in their lives, and2) some sort of damaged skin or tissue (UV rays from sun, X rays, perhaps even chemicals like chlorine in water), and3) a weak immune system.It isn't hard to acquire #2 and #3. #2 – tissue damage may happen to fair skinned people from sun exposure without sunscreen, but could also happen to dark skinned people (like Bob Marley who had a subungual melanoma) from other factors (possibly chlorine or strong, reactive free radicals). #3 – weak immunity happens to everyone at some point. In fact alcohol, illnesses, and a host of other factors depress the immune system.
My moles started showing up soon after I started dating a girl who has lots of atypical moles on her and has a history of cancer in her family.
I believe there is research underway by some scientists linking a variant of HPV to melanoma (including by Dr. Harald Hausen who got the Nobel Prize for proving that cervical cancer is caused by a few strains of HPV). There are hundreds of strains of HPV, some causing warts, others causing squamous cell carcinoma, yet others cervical cancer, and yet others apparently harmless. More than 50% of American population carries at least one strain of HPV. But it could be an entirely new kind of virus that likes to live in melanocytes.I have heard of citizen scientists banding up to do research that mainstream, well funded science deems less profitable. Maybe this is one of those areas? I would be willing to team up with and fund anyone who wants to do research into the virus theory. -
- June 15, 2012 at 5:32 am
I'm so glad I found this page, cause I sort of came to a similar conclusion about 10 months ago after my body started exploding with new moles (I'm in my mid 30s), and my biopsies came back with positive stains on all melanoma tests. I was flabbergasted when the dermatologist told me it was because of the sun and to use sunscreen, because I'm from India and am very dark, and new moles at this age are unheard of where I come from. But most unlikely of all, my moles are all in non-sun exposed areas. The conventional wisdom didn't make sense. there had to be another story.
It may not be that long of a shot that Melanoma could be caused primarily by a long dormant virus. This hypothesis would seem to fit most facts known about melanoma. Melanoma runs in families, but according to one study, husbands and wives (obviously not genetically related) were found to have 6 times the rate of melanoma one would expect from a non-contagious disease.
Under the virus hypothesis, a person might have to have:1) exposure to the virus at some point in their lives, and2) some sort of damaged skin or tissue (UV rays from sun, X rays, perhaps even chemicals like chlorine in water), and3) a weak immune system.It isn't hard to acquire #2 and #3. #2 – tissue damage may happen to fair skinned people from sun exposure without sunscreen, but could also happen to dark skinned people (like Bob Marley who had a subungual melanoma) from other factors (possibly chlorine or strong, reactive free radicals). #3 – weak immunity happens to everyone at some point. In fact alcohol, illnesses, and a host of other factors depress the immune system.
My moles started showing up soon after I started dating a girl who has lots of atypical moles on her and has a history of cancer in her family.
I believe there is research underway by some scientists linking a variant of HPV to melanoma (including by Dr. Harald Hausen who got the Nobel Prize for proving that cervical cancer is caused by a few strains of HPV). There are hundreds of strains of HPV, some causing warts, others causing squamous cell carcinoma, yet others cervical cancer, and yet others apparently harmless. More than 50% of American population carries at least one strain of HPV. But it could be an entirely new kind of virus that likes to live in melanocytes.I have heard of citizen scientists banding up to do research that mainstream, well funded science deems less profitable. Maybe this is one of those areas? I would be willing to team up with and fund anyone who wants to do research into the virus theory. -
- June 15, 2012 at 5:32 am
I'm so glad I found this page, cause I sort of came to a similar conclusion about 10 months ago after my body started exploding with new moles (I'm in my mid 30s), and my biopsies came back with positive stains on all melanoma tests. I was flabbergasted when the dermatologist told me it was because of the sun and to use sunscreen, because I'm from India and am very dark, and new moles at this age are unheard of where I come from. But most unlikely of all, my moles are all in non-sun exposed areas. The conventional wisdom didn't make sense. there had to be another story.
It may not be that long of a shot that Melanoma could be caused primarily by a long dormant virus. This hypothesis would seem to fit most facts known about melanoma. Melanoma runs in families, but according to one study, husbands and wives (obviously not genetically related) were found to have 6 times the rate of melanoma one would expect from a non-contagious disease.
Under the virus hypothesis, a person might have to have:1) exposure to the virus at some point in their lives, and2) some sort of damaged skin or tissue (UV rays from sun, X rays, perhaps even chemicals like chlorine in water), and3) a weak immune system.It isn't hard to acquire #2 and #3. #2 – tissue damage may happen to fair skinned people from sun exposure without sunscreen, but could also happen to dark skinned people (like Bob Marley who had a subungual melanoma) from other factors (possibly chlorine or strong, reactive free radicals). #3 – weak immunity happens to everyone at some point. In fact alcohol, illnesses, and a host of other factors depress the immune system.
My moles started showing up soon after I started dating a girl who has lots of atypical moles on her and has a history of cancer in her family.
I believe there is research underway by some scientists linking a variant of HPV to melanoma (including by Dr. Harald Hausen who got the Nobel Prize for proving that cervical cancer is caused by a few strains of HPV). There are hundreds of strains of HPV, some causing warts, others causing squamous cell carcinoma, yet others cervical cancer, and yet others apparently harmless. More than 50% of American population carries at least one strain of HPV. But it could be an entirely new kind of virus that likes to live in melanocytes.I have heard of citizen scientists banding up to do research that mainstream, well funded science deems less profitable. Maybe this is one of those areas? I would be willing to team up with and fund anyone who wants to do research into the virus theory.
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