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Every good theory needs to make accurate predictions. As such, I predict the following.

1. If you take the full gamut of embryologic TSA's (tissue specific antigens) and, either alone or attached to some mobile substrate, put them in contact with cancer cells, you will cause the reprogramming of the cancer cell's genomic expressions.

2. There is a particular sequence of TSA's that will take any given cancer cell to normalcy.

3. The particular sequence could be individual specific for, if you had them species-wide, it would be easy for a parasite to mimic them and avoid detection by immune cells. Instead, parasites normally continuously express a wide range of antigens throughout their life.

4. Cancer could be induced by denaturing the TSA's continuously.

5. The rate of cancer is directly proportional to the rate of cell division because this allows for a greater probability for the TSA's to become denatured.

6. Putting cancer cells into an embryo will result in the cancer cells return to normalcy. [this has already been shown by a female biologist several decades ago.]

7. #6 will only work for inbred individuals.

8. Changes that orchestrate cancer can take place via chemical, radiologic, or genomic changes that affect the TSA.

9. Genetic changes that now result in cancer, may, eventually result in new tissues (evolution).
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