Man died with 'tapeworm tumours'

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

[navagraha]

"The patient had HIV and his weakened immune system allowed the worm-cancer to flourish."

[frothmouth]

“Up to 75 million people have an H. nana infection at any one time. Doctors believe that worm-cancer is rare, but know many cases could be going undiagnosed. The US Centers for Disease Control said hand washing and cooking raw vegetables was the best way to prevent infection. There have been some

[ttrr]

"Around 90% of the worm's body is given over to reproduction as it spews out thousands of eggs into the gut every day. Rather than the worm getting cancer, it is thought one of these eggs penetrated the lining of the intestines, mutated and ultimately became cancerous" 小説より奇

[dltlt]

ヒト体内で生活史が完結するタイプのサナダムシで、腸管粘膜に入り込んだ虫卵が発生段階で異常をきたし、HIVによる免疫不全のため暴走してしまった珍しいケースとのこと。

[kazutox]

寄生虫のガン細胞が増殖する症例の発見