Revealing the Dark Matter of Cancer

By Jerome Burne

Part 1

According to a graphic designer with no medical or even scientific training, the conventional theory about what causes cancer is badly flawed, and as a result, the way we treat it is far less effective than it could be.

His name is Mark Lintern, but he is no lone oddball. When recently he was invited to present his theory and explain what, he claimed, was the real cause, the audience of over 200 cancer professionals and a panel of scientists, clinicians, and patient experts, agreed it was well-worth investigating further.  A book of around 600 pages plus over 800 scientific references is due to be published shortly,

Conventionally the cause is said to be damaging but random changes in a few genes that set a cell off on a path of uncontrolled growth. This was the explanation given to Mark when he developed skin cancer eight years ago. ‘The more I researched, however, the more unconvincing it became,’ he says. 

Installing Biological Apps

I couldn’t understand how changes to DNA, which were supposedly random  and so were just the result of bad luck, as one consultant put it, produced the remarkably sophisticated and varied modifications to a cell that are caused by cancer. The way the disease develops is as though a series of biological apps have been installed – damp down the immune system, stop damaged cells from destroying themselves, hook up to a nearby artery for nutrients, and so on.  (more…)