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Man died with 'tapeworm tumours'
Another tapeworm story...
Man died with 'tapeworm tumours'
By James Gallagher
Health editor, BBC News website
5 November 2015
A man has died with tumours made of cancerous parasitic worm tissue growing in his organs, doctors report.
The patient had HIV and his weakened immune system allowed the worm-cancer to flourish.
The unusual case was diagnosed through a collaboration between the US Centers for Disease Control and the UK's Natural History Museum.
Doctors said the case, detailed in the New England Journal of Medicine, was "crazy" and unusual.
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34721419
By James Gallagher
Health editor, BBC News website
5 November 2015
A man has died with tumours made of cancerous parasitic worm tissue growing in his organs, doctors report.
The patient had HIV and his weakened immune system allowed the worm-cancer to flourish.
The unusual case was diagnosed through a collaboration between the US Centers for Disease Control and the UK's Natural History Museum.
Doctors said the case, detailed in the New England Journal of Medicine, was "crazy" and unusual.
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34721419
