Cancer Research UK has funded a new research in the journal Nature Medicine, and they also found that prehistoric DNA series within human cells might really aid cancer cells to live, in at least one kind of the sickness.

The study was centered on Hodgkin's lymphoma, in which some white blood cells become cancerous. The researchers involved were from the University of Leeds, and the Charité University Medical School and Max Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin, Germany.

It has been reported that cells which are cancerous trigger a lot of mysterious sections of DNA known as long terminal repeats (LTRs), they are believed to be evolutionary leftovers of old viruses.

It was discovered by researchers that this LTR set off an unusual signal receptor, which is regularly found in other immune cells. The growth of the cancer cells was controlled by this receptor, letting them to survive.

It was suggested by scientists that these divisions of DNA might also function in other comparable types of cancer.

Professor Constanze Bonifer, from the University of Leeds, explained, "The exact same mechanism could be involved in the development of other forms of blood cancer. This would have implications for diagnosis, prognosis and therapy of these diseases”.