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Diagnostic Dilemma: A Surgeon Accidentally Transplanted a Tumor Into His Own Hand
LIVESCIENCE ^ | Mindy Weisberger

Posted on 01/02/2025 6:14:12 PM PST by nickcarraway

In an unusual case, a surgeon developed a cancerous lump on his hand that stemmed from an injury he sustained while performing surgery.

The patient: A 53-year-old man in Germany

The symptoms: A surgeon developed swelling in his left hand near the base of his middle finger. This was the site of an injury he sustained five months earlier while removing a patient's malignant abdominal tumor. The lump in the surgeon's hand measured 1.2 inches (3 centimeters) in diameter.

What happened next: The surgeon had the lump removed, and an analysis revealed that it was a cancerous fibrous histiocytoma, a type of tumor containing histiocytes — immune cells that migrate into tissues where they don't belong and then form tumorous growths. It was the same type of tumor that the surgeon had been removing at the time of his hand injury. According to a report of the case published in 1996, a pathologist who examined both people's tumors wondered if the pair were as identical as they appeared.

The diagnosis: It turned out that the surgeon had accidentally transplanted some of the patient's tumor into his hand. Researchers collected samples of both tumors, isolated their DNA and conducted a genetic analysis. They found that the tumors not only had similar cellular compositions but were also genetically identical. When the scientists compared the samples to an unrelated histiocytoma, they confirmed that the first two tumors were indistinguishable from each other and "clearly distinct" from the third.

During that prior operation on the abdominal tumor, the surgeon had nicked his palm. The wound was immediately cleaned and bandaged, but the appearance of an identical tumor in his hand months later suggested that the surgeon had accidentally transplanted cells from the patient's malignant growth into his body.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: cancer; medicine; surgery; surgwery
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1 posted on 01/02/2025 6:14:12 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: ConservativeMind

Ping


2 posted on 01/02/2025 6:15:11 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

If I had a nickel ...


3 posted on 01/02/2025 6:23:29 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: nickcarraway

Must have left quite a hole in his latex glove.


4 posted on 01/02/2025 6:26:46 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: nickcarraway

Cancer is infectious?


5 posted on 01/02/2025 6:38:23 PM PST by unlearner (Still not tired of winning.)
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To: nickcarraway

Wow. That’s really interesting. Creepy, though.


6 posted on 01/02/2025 6:40:37 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: unlearner

There has been talk for many years about cancer being caused by viruses.


7 posted on 01/02/2025 6:40:48 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: nickcarraway

Just wondering what’s in Bill Gates’s lab grown meat he wants us to eat?


8 posted on 01/02/2025 6:44:07 PM PST by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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To: reasonisfaith

“There has been talk for many years about cancer being caused by viruses.”

It does make sense. Ivermectin works against CoronaVIRUS. And there are so many studies proving that Ivermectin can prevent and/or cure breast cancer.

Maybe cancer and Coronavirus both are viruses.
Maybe cancer and Coronavirus both are parasites.

It’s all interesting.


9 posted on 01/02/2025 6:46:03 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: unlearner

Well heck, it can spread within one’s body, why not out of one’s body and into another’s?


10 posted on 01/02/2025 6:46:20 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: nickcarraway

Was it covered?

(I know this was in Germany)


11 posted on 01/02/2025 6:47:27 PM PST by Celerity
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To: reasonisfaith

HPV causes cancer, right?


12 posted on 01/02/2025 6:47:49 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Physician, heal thyself.


13 posted on 01/02/2025 6:49:32 PM PST by BipolarBob (I injured myself measuring radio frequencies. It still Hertz.)
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To: nickcarraway

This is very interesting.


14 posted on 01/02/2025 6:52:44 PM PST by Faith65 (Isaiah 40:31 )
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To: nickcarraway

Seems to be the case.

Also, xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus has been looked at.


15 posted on 01/02/2025 6:54:43 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: BenLurkin

That’s what I’m thinking. Not a nick, but a total gaping hole?


16 posted on 01/02/2025 6:57:55 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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Dude is fortunate that he wasn’t working with Ebola. He would’ve been a goner in no time, due to his inability to use sterile protocol.


17 posted on 01/02/2025 7:00:30 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: FamiliarFace

Nobody would have to worry about Ebola if the CIA hadn’t created it.


18 posted on 01/02/2025 7:02:34 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: unlearner

That is exactly what I am thinking from this article !


19 posted on 01/02/2025 7:15:00 PM PST by battletank
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To: reasonisfaith

Epstein–Barr virus Genetic materials is found in some Hodgkin lymphoma cases and is thought to be in a few others. So virus and cancer is not new. The prevalence and interactions is still not full understood. So pumping people with a genetic treatment that some call a vaccine that is also contaminated with LNP containing DNA fragments & SV40 was a really dump idea - in my opinion.


20 posted on 01/02/2025 7:17:01 PM PST by wgmalabama (For rent….)
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