All cancer is not caused by DNA

This is my first debate so I thought I'd try a simple topic and turn everyones understanding of cancer on its head :) Anyone game for a response to defend the current status quo? I propose that the 'genetic' theory of cancer is incorrect, that DNA is not the cause of any cancer but is instead a symptom of another cause. As a result the majority of medical science is attempting to cure symptoms and not the root cause focusing on and manipulating DNA with drugs - and this is the reason why no cure has been forthcoming. SUPPORTING ARGUMENT: 1) The genetic theory fails to explain most of the 'Hanahan and Weinburg Hallmarks of cancer' - these hallmarks are shared between all cancers and is the yard stick by which the validity of any cancer theory is measured. There are 8 hallmarks accepted by science, they are: - Self-sufficiency in growth signals (stimulation of their own growth) - Insensitivity to anti-growth signals (resistance to inhibitory signals) - Evading apoptosis (they resist programmed cell death) - Limitless replicative potential (they can multiply indefinately) - Sustained angiogenesis (grow new blood vessels) - Tissue invasion and metastasis (spread to distant sites) - Have abnormal metabolic pathways (mitochondrial dysfunction) - Evade the immune system The genetic theory fails to adequately explain all of these common traits, some it does dubiously and some it can't explain at all, this suggests that DNA is not the cause, those where an attempt of an explanation is made is only a partial explanation and is based largely on speculation rather than evidence of the DNA gene responsible. Worthy of note the genetic theory specifically fails to explain: - Evading apoptosis - How the cell is able to evade programmed cell death. - The resistance to inhibitory growth signals - why cells grow - Angiogenesis - blood vessel growth and why it occurs - Metastasis - spread of cancer, why and how it occurs - Mitochondrial dysfunction - Evasion from the immune system 2) The genetic theory also fails to explain: - The unprecedented increase in cancer incidence - Child cancers and their increase - Why cancer runs in the family - Nagalase expression " which occurs in all cancers - Methyl-deficiency - which occurs in all cancers - The role of the immune system and why a weakened immune system increases cancer risk. - Why exercise decreases cancer risk when an increase in free radicals should increase it. 3) The unscientific approach of medical scientists are exposed by the fact they infer that DNA is the cause of cancer but choose to ignore the relevance of the DNA of the mitochondria. Dysfunctional mitochondria occur in all cancers and play a significant role (see Otto Warburg, Professor Thomas Seyfreid and the 'metabolic theory' of cancer). In fact the metabolic theory, which cites dysfunctional mitochondria as the cause of cancer, explains far more 'hallmarks of cancer' than that of the genetic theory. 4) One of the other major stumbling blocks of the genetic theory is that it can't explain why apoptosis (programmed cell death) is able to re-occur when natural plant compounds are shown to selectively kill cancer cells " according to the genetic theory the cell death gene is damaged and it is this damage that leads to cancer in the first place. How can the genetic theory explain this? The anticancer properties of dietary polyphenols and its relation with apoptosis. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... 5) The national cancer institute states that 80% of all studies in to cancer are incorrect exposing that DNA is not the cause because these experiments cannot be replicated, here is a lecture that exposes this, presented by Professor Paul Davies (exposed within the first ten minutes): 6) In 1950, when science was rudimentary to todays standards, it was discovered by Watson and Crick that there were DNA differences between cancer cells and healthy cells. This simple association is the basis of the assumption that cancer is caused by DNA, since then and for the following 6 decades our scientists have been working to solve cancer based on DNA alone choosing to cite an association and assumption made in the 1950's as evidence enough to prove it to be factual, such is the unscientific approach to solving this complex problem that medical science has taken. It is clear that DNA is not the cause of cancer.