THE TUMOR
The spring-like shape allows the bases to be stacked like the
steps of a spiral staircase, at the same time keeping the threads
close together in a tight fit. Yet, cholesterol-like molecules can
break into this careful arrangement when the chromosomes are
lying unprotected in cytoplasm
during mitosis. Cholesterol-like
molecules are very thin and flat
and are perfectly suited to slide
between the bases and get stuck
there. In this way they cause mu-
tations. It is called intercalation. It
is probably quite accidental, hap-
pening when cholesterol-like
molecules are plentiful nearby.
Our bodies have developed
elaborate systems of getting rid of
old cholesterol and hormones
safely by detoxifying them. But
the detoxification products them-
selves have molecular shapes dan-
gerously similar to the mutagens
of the PAH family. Could choles-
terol occasionally and erroneously
be turned into a carcinogenic
PAH? My evidence shows that it
does,^39 and other researchers have
also considered the possibility.^40
The Syncrometer detects a host
of carcinogenic chemicals of the polycyclic hydrocarbon class
in every tumor, even in warts. These were called “carcinogenic”
originally because a minute quantity of a PAH could be injected
into a mouse or other animal, or rubbed onto the skin, and
sometime later—often many months—tumors would appear,
predictably. These tumors could be removed and planted in a
(^39) Clark, H.R., Syncrometer Biochemistry Laboratory Manual, New Century Press,
1999.
(^40) Greenstein, p. 49.
The double threads of nu-
cleic acid are twisted like a
spiral staircase. The “rungs”
are made of a purine base
from one thread and a
pyrimidine base from the
other thread. The bases
attract each other with a
force. The spaces between
the “steps” can be invaded
by PAHs or cholesterol de-
rivatives.