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Surgeon catches CANCER from patient in first-of-its-kind case
Daily Mail UK ^ | January 02, 2025 | ALEXA LARDIERI

Posted on 01/03/2025 8:38:34 AM PST by Red Badger

A doctor operating on a cancer patient accidentally 'transplanted' the disease into himself, in what is believed to be a one-of-a-kind event.

A 32-year-old man from Germany had been diagnosed with a rare type of cancer and was having a tumor removed from his abdomen.

While in surgery, the doctor performing the procedure accidentally cut his hand, but the wound was disinfected and bandaged immediately.

However, five months later, the 53-year-old surgeon noticed a small lump developing where he had injured himself months earlier and sought care.

The lump turned out to be a malignant tumor and tests showed it was genetically identical to the cancer suffered by his former patient.

This lead the medical team who treated him to conclude he had caught the cancer when tumor cells entered the cut on his hand.

Authors of the case report called this an usual situation because in a traditional transplant, the body mounts an immune response and rejects any foreign tissue, and they would have expected the same in the doctor's case.

However, given the tumor's development, and growth, it suggests the surgeon's body had an 'ineffective antitumor immune response.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; History; Military/Veterans; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: cancer; iatrogeniccarcinoma; iwbg
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1 posted on 01/03/2025 8:38:34 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Vaxx


2 posted on 01/03/2025 8:41:14 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
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To: Red Badger

Broccoli kills cancer! A lot of people don’t know that; it’s not out yet. It’s true. You find out you got some cancer...(click) get yourself a bowl of broccoli. That’ll wipe it right out in a day or two.

Cauliflower too; cauliflower kills the really big cancers. The ones you can see through clothing from across the street. Broccoli kills the little ones. The ones that are slowly eating you away from inside while your goofy, half-educated doctor keeps telling you, “You’re doing fine, Jim.”

In fact, bring your doctor a bowl of broccoli. He’s probably got cancer too. Probably picked it up from you.

-George Carlin


3 posted on 01/03/2025 8:41:41 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

Vaccinated.


4 posted on 01/03/2025 8:41:43 AM PST by chuckb87
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To: Red Badger

More on this, here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4287794/posts


5 posted on 01/03/2025 8:42:46 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: dfwgator

Well, that’s just absurd! Everyone knows it’s KALE that kills cancer!


6 posted on 01/03/2025 8:45:08 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Flaming Conservative

Well, that’s just absurd! Everyone knows it’s KALE that kills cancer!


Probably because you end up pooping it out. I eat Kale, and I know I’ll be spending the next few hours on the toilet.


7 posted on 01/03/2025 8:46:16 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

The doctor performing the procedure accidentally cut his hand.

Sounds like he was Rodney Dangerfield’s doctor Benny Boom Bah.


8 posted on 01/03/2025 8:47:04 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Red Badger

A new Fauci-Project, for sure!


9 posted on 01/03/2025 8:53:00 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: Red Badger
Two years after the surgeon had his own tumor removed, there were no signs the cancer had spread or returned.

For those looking for this information. 🙂👍

10 posted on 01/03/2025 8:54:57 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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This lead the medical team who treated him to conclude he had caught the cancer when tumor cells entered the cut on his hand.

{sigh…}

11 posted on 01/03/2025 8:55:13 AM PST by Allegra (Less finger-wagging would be appreciated . )
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To: Red Badger

Was it cancer or The Thing?


12 posted on 01/03/2025 9:01:24 AM PST by Antihero101607
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To: dfwgator

Cauliflower? I’ll just go ahead and take my chances with the cancer!


13 posted on 01/03/2025 9:03:57 AM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: Red Badger

Yeah - I don’t think so.

Cancer is a genetic disease where the cells are mutated and the immune system doesn’t recognize it as harmful because they look genetically “correct”.

Unless the patient and the doctor were genetically related those cells should not have been able to survive in the doc- let alone thrive.


14 posted on 01/03/2025 9:06:02 AM PST by Skywise
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They should be able to prove or disprove that the tumor was transplanted.

It is possible that it was.

15 posted on 01/03/2025 9:09:40 AM PST by caddie
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To: Skywise

Just curious. Where did you get your medical degree?


16 posted on 01/03/2025 9:23:32 AM PST by TexasGator (11'1/'1/11111)
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To: Allegra

Oops 😬


17 posted on 01/03/2025 9:36:23 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ....... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Ate, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Red Badger

cause of inflamation - transferred?


18 posted on 01/03/2025 9:49:34 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: TexasGator

Just curious why you blindingly accept “medical expertise”?

Have you had your Covid booster today?


19 posted on 01/03/2025 10:27:41 AM PST by Skywise
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To: caddie

They claim the DNA of the tumor on the doc matched the patient.


20 posted on 01/03/2025 10:29:03 AM PST by Skywise
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