Cancers in Children Ages 8 to 12 Are Injury-Related

Kirsten H. Walen^*

CROMOS, Richmond, USA.

DOI: 10.4236/jct.2015.62020                

Abstract

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.

Keywords

Endomitosis, Endotetraploidization, Diplochromosomes, Reductive Division, Genomic Change, Proliferative Advantage, Wound Healing

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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