For the first time in medical journals: Doctor “stuck” cancer from his patient

Prominent but real. One who operated on a patient with “transplanted” cancer cells accidentally to himself, in an incident characterized as unique in medical chronicles. The patient was a 32-year-old from Germany, who had been diagnosed with a rare type of sarcoma in the abdomen, called malignant fibrous histiocytoma. CORVERSE While his surgeon removed it, he accidentally cut his left hand in the palm. His wound was immediately disinfected and protected by a bandage. Five months later, however, the 53 – year – old doctor observed that he had at the point of injury a small lump, 3 cm in diameter. He addressed an expert in the extreme hand at his hospital, who subjected him to thorough examination, but showed no concern. Nevertheless, the expert recommended that the lump be removed – as it was done. The biopsy that followed showed that it was a malignant fibrous histiocytoma. CORVERSE The pathologist who performed both biopsies, being informed of the 53-year-old’s injury to surgery, wondered if they were the same sarcomas. So he decided to request genetic testing of the samples. The test revealed that the samples were genetically identical. This finding led doctors from Eberhard Karls University, in Tübingen, to the conclusion that the 53-year-old had “stucked” cancer when cancer tumor cells entered his skin from the wound. This incident is not new. It happened in 1994 and was published in 1996 in the top medical inspection New England Journal of Medicine. However, the interest in this was revived thanks to the Internet. Cancer is not a contagious disease, but all the rules have their exceptions. That is why this particular incident was published in a medical inspection. Incomplete immune response As his colleagues explain in their article, normally the “transplantation” of cancer cells from one human to another causes the reaction of his immune “receiver”. This reaction leads to a rejection of the “complant”. In the case of the 53-year-old, apparently the immune response was incomplete. So instead of rejecting cancer cells, these began to grow and a new mass was created. Malignant fibrous histiocytoma is a form of highly malignant sarcoma. It tends to grow on the skin in the form of small nodules, which grow slowly when superficial. It often insults men and usually develops at the edges or periventricular area. For the record, the 32-year-old patient died some time after surgery from postoperative complications. Instead, his 53-year-old surgeon was strong and strong two years after his intervention.