{"id":203114,"date":"2025-01-05T02:03:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T08:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/surgeon-catches-cancer-from-patient-in-first-ever-case-with-experts-shocked"},"modified":"2025-01-05T02:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T08:03:42","slug":"surgeon-catches-cancer-from-patient-in-first-ever-case-with-experts-shocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/surgeon-catches-cancer-from-patient-in-first-ever-case-with-experts-shocked","title":{"rendered":"Surgeon catches cancer from patient in \u2018first-ever\u2019 case with experts shocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/surgeon-catches-cancer-from-patient-in-first-ever-case-with-experts-shocked.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a shocking turn of events, a surgeon operating on a cancer patient managed to contract <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishstar.com\/news\/us-news\/warning-issued-over-very-common-34406702\" rel=\"follow nofollow\" target=\"_self\"> the deadly disease<\/a> 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 \u201ctransplanted\u201d the disease into himself.<\/p>\n<p>This occurred when cells from the patient\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishstar.com\/news\/us-news\/only-two-foods-increase-risk-34386994\" rel=\"follow nofollow\" target=\"_self\"> tumor seeped into a cut on the surgeon\u2019s hand.<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>A hand specialist identified the lump as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishstar.com\/news\/us-news\/colon-cancer-symptoms-signs-illness-34034032\" rel=\"follow nofollow\" target=\"_self\"> malignant tumor<\/a> genetically identical to cancer suffered by his former patient. Doctors treating him concluded that he had contracted cancer when his patient\u2019s tumor cells seeped into the cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201ctransplanted\u201d the disease into himself. This occurred [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}