Journal of Cancer Therapy

Volume 6, Issue 2 (February 2015)

ISSN Print: 2151-1934   ISSN Online: 2151-1942

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Cancers in Children Ages 8 to 12 Are Injury-Related

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DOI: 10.4236/jct.2015.62020    2,975 Downloads   3,971 Views  Citations
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Cancers in young children in early growing age was a short PBS (KQED) report (11/21/2014), but without informational source, which prompted a Google search. Sports-associated injuries with medical healing treatments concluded that there were no association between these body traumas and cancer development. But there are other activities from young children, such as “dare-devil” skateboard and bicycling meter-high jumping with potential high energy falls, to serious broken-bone injuries. Falls of children are among the most common causes of US emergency response. The question is why bodily injury is associated with cancer-development? An answer to this question was exemplified by osteosarcoma in young children, which suggested that injury to growing points of bone and surrounding soft tissue cells would elicit a repair process (wound healing process) producing polyploidy with diplochromosomes. The non-mitotic reductive division of such 4-chromatid chromosomes has been shown in vitro to produce pathological cancer-like phenotypes, including gain of a proliferative advantage.

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Walen, K. (2015) Cancers in Children Ages 8 to 12 Are Injury-Related. Journal of Cancer Therapy, 6, 177-181. doi: 10.4236/jct.2015.62020.

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