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(Bio-)Physical laws underlying all living matter suggest involvement of long known electromagnetic regulation principles and (bio-)photons in normal cell, but characteristic abnormalities also during tumour growth. More than 30 years of research on photons and bio-photons now even seem to allow a new explanatory approach on cancer origin.

Tumour growth is a collective and typical example of deviated communication phenomena within cell populations. The statement that there have to be “cancer cells” may be of similar nature like the attempt of assessing the temperature of a gas by trying to investigating a single gas molecule.

Starting point of our new theory is cell division. It is well known that the molecular content of the mother cell without any deviation is divided into two identical bio-molecular entities for the daughter cells. However, statistical laws would require an over- or undershoot of vN, (N = 1010 is the number of biomolecules in a cell). In other words, about vN = 105 molecules should become randomly located after every cell division in each of the two daughter cells.

Apparent absence of aberration at this scale (otherwise no complex biological organism could survive) can only be explained by electromagnetic forces controlling the correct movement (and reactions) of all the molecules. The apparent perfection in keeping the mitotic figures stable can only be explained in terms of a quasi-stationary electromagnetic field, forming in the cells standing cavity resonator waves, which themselves can be calculated by the Maxwell equations. Resonator waves stabilize the arrangement of molecules due to the boundary conditions of the cell, requiring resonance frequencies between about 200 and 800 nm. Actually, these fields are bio-photons in the visible range and have been registered by a suitable photomultiplier whenever they are released.

It turns out that these field patterns represent statistically coherent states. Consequently the probability of measuring n photons has to follow a Poissonian statistics p(n) = exp (-<n>) <n>n/n!. The evidence of these "bio-photons" (which are emitted as single photons by living biological cells and systems satisfying just these conditions) has been shown already in 1976 and has been reproduced by multiple other scientists working on biophotonics. Since a cohe¬rent field is self-reflective, it follows dn/dt = a n + b n2 (equ.1), where n are subunits of the system (i.e. photons or cells), dn/dt describes the time development of n, and a and b are parameters describing the dynamics of cell growth. b must not vanish in order to keep the coherence of the system.

A typical description of cellular growth rate is the correlation between bio-photon emission and numerical growth, where b<0 provides by subtraction from dn/dt the imitation of cell mass (i.e. inhibition of cell growth), while a>0 is necessary for cell growth stimulation. While a refers to chaotic stimulating components of growth, b is a collective parameter, depending on integrative properties of the whole cellular system. b as inhibitor of cell growth is strongly linked to the degree of the coherence of the field. Otherwise it could not provide coherence. Applying these biophysical facts to cancer development means: a definite loss of coherence is a necessary and sufficient condition of cancer development. The origin of oncogenesis can thus be reduced to the investigation of b and b/a. Thus, in order to understand cancer, it is necessary to understand the biophysical mechanisms behind the regulatory functions in terms of coherent electromagnetic fields (biophotons) within the cells. (Further information: http://www.biophotonik.de).