Planetary Dependence of Melanoma

Zioutas, K.; Valachovic, Edward

doi:10.1142/s179304801850008x

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“…Notably, a planetary relationship has been observed also for melanoma incidence [16] which is a type of cancer of the skin. Interestingly, this first observation has been cross-checked independently (see ref.…”

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The Dark Universe Is Not Invisible

Zioutas

Anastassopoulos

Argiriou

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The 1st Electronic Conference on Universe

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Dark matter (DM) came from long-range gravitational observations which actually does not interact with ordinary matter. Though, on much smaller scales, a number of unexpected phenomena contradict this picture for DM. Because, some of the solar activity or the dynamic earth's atmosphere might arise from DM streams. Gravitational (self-)focusing effects by the Sun or its planets of streaming DM fits as the underlying process, e.g., for the otherwise puzzling 11-year solar cycle, the mysterious heating of the solar corona with its fast temperature inversion, etc. Observationally driven we arrive to an external impact by as yet overlooked "streaming invisible matter", which reconciles some of the investigated mysterious observations. Unexpected planetary relationships exist for the dynamic Sun and Earth atmosphere and are considered as the signature for streaming DM. Then, focusing of DM streams could also occur in exoplanetary systems, suggesting for the first time investigations by searching for the associated stellar activity as a function of the exoplanetary orbital phases. The entire observationally driven reasoning is suggestive for highly cross-disciplinary approaches including also (puzzling) bio-medical phenomena. Favoured candidates from the dark sector are the highly ionizing anti-quark nuggets, magnetic monopoles, but also particles like dark photons.

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The Dark Universe Is Not Invisible

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Argiriou

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“…5 too), i.e., the objections by SN are thus based on assumptions considered as inapplicable. 2,5 (3) Melanoma and race: SN uses throughout his work the WIMP paradigm to conclude that Afro-Americans cannot be selectively immune to dark matter. Firstly, we repeat that WIMPs and dark matter are out of consideration by ZV.…”

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Response to Comment on “Planetary Dependence of Melanoma”

Zioutas

Valachovic

Maroudas

2019

Biophys. Rev. Lett.

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In [Biophys. Rev. Lett. 14, 1–9 (2018), arXiv: 1812.02482], Socas-Navarro (SN) provided multiple confirmation of the claimed [Formula: see text]88 days melanoma periodicity [K. Zioutas and E. Valachovic, Biophys. Rev. Lett. 13, 75 (2018), https://doi.org/10.1142/S179304801850008X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dark.2017.06.001.] (which remarkably coincides with the orbital period of Mercury). This greatly strengthens the observation by Zioutas and Valachovic (ZV). Here, we comment on the work by SN, because it objects the interpretation of the observation by ZV. Note that SN objection is based on serious assumptions, which were explicitly excluded by ZV. Further, the conclusion made with a sub-set of data (4%) is statistically not significant to dispute ZV. On the contrary, since the same periodicity appears also in other eight major cancer types, we consider it as a global oscillatory behavior of cancer. At this stage, such a rather ubiquitous cancer periodicity makes any discussion of a small subset of data at least secondarily. Further, we show here that the [Formula: see text]88 days Melanoma periodicity is not related to solar activity. Planetary lensing of streaming low speed invisible massive particles remains the only viable explanation, as it has been introduced previously with a number of physics observations [S. Bertolucci, K. Zioutas, S. Hofmann and M. Maroudas, Phys. Dark Univ. 17, 13 (2017), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dark.2017.06.001.]. We also show that planetary lensing of low speed particles cannot be considered in isolation, because of the dominating Sun’s gravity, at least for the inner planets. Interestingly, gravitational lensing/deflection favors low speed particles.

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On the Connection between Planets, Dark Matter and Cancer: Comment on “Planetary Dependence of Melanoma”

Socas‐Navarro

2019

Biophys. Rev. Lett.

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In a recent paper, Zioutas and Valachovic (2018) claim that dark matter is responsible for a significant fraction of the melanoma skin cancer. This conclusion is drawn from their observation of a significant correlation between skin melanoma incidence in the US and the inner planets positions (especially those of Mercury and Earth). Here I present a number of objections to their interpretation. Some (but not all) of the counterarguments are based on the analysis of a larger dataset from the same source, considering more cancer types and separating by patient attributes, such as race. One of the counterarguments is that, if the melanoma fluctuations with periods similar to planetary orbits were produced by dark matter density enhancements on Earth, then we would have to conclude that the black population is somehow immune to dark matter, a conclusion that seems incompatible with the current WIMP paradigm. Interestingly, some periodicities are present in the data, including the ones reported by Zioutas and Valachovic, but I argue that they must have a societal rather than astronomical origin.

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Planetary Dependence of Melanoma

Cited by 6 publications

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The Dark Universe Is Not Invisible

The Dark Universe Is Not Invisible

Response to Comment on “Planetary Dependence of Melanoma”

On the Connection between Planets, Dark Matter and Cancer: Comment on “Planetary Dependence of Melanoma”

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