Jan 2, 2025 04:02 PM
https://www.livescience.com/health/cance...s-own-hand
EXCERPTS: 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.
[...] 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.
[...] 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... (MORE - missing details)
EXCERPTS: 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.
[...] 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.
[...] 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... (MORE - missing details)