In a shocking turn of events, a surgeon operating on a cancer patient managed to contract the deadly disease in what is believed to be an unprecedented case. The doctor was performing surgery on a 32-year-old German man suffering from a rare type of cancer when he accidentally “transplanted” the disease into himself.
This occurred when cells from the patient’s tumor seeped into a cut on the surgeon’s hand. Despite immediate disinfection and bandaging, the 53-year-old medic noticed a hard lump developing at the base of his middle finger five months later.
A hand specialist identified the lump as a malignant tumor genetically identical to cancer suffered by his former patient. Doctors treating him concluded that he had contracted cancer when his patient’s tumor cells seeped into the cut.
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