Abstract Every cancer cell can partially or completely return to an embryonic genotype-phenotype: We capture the cycle of the activation of an individual cellular memory, which allowed a group of squamous tumor cells with mutations caused by the Human Papilloma Virus to return collectively to an embryoblast- like entities. Somatic injured cells have the plasticity to transform their morphology into an embryonic phenotype by expression of dormant genes when they enter a state of cellular emergency.