Biochemical Resemblances Between Endoparasites and Malignant Tumors
In October 1950, Soviet biologist Prof. V. V. Alpatov published an article in the popular science journal Priroda (Nature) exploring a provocative idea: that intestinal endoparasites (parasitic worms living inside a host) and malignant tumors share striking biochemical similarities due to the comparable low-oxygen environments in which they thrive. This observation revived an older hypothesis…
