Thursday, May 28, 2009

Cancer meds can wipe away fingerprints? Crazy...


"A patient who took an anti-cancer drug lost his fingerprints, which caused him to be detained for hours when he tried to visit the United States.The 62-year-old patient had been taking capecitabine, a follow-up drug for chemotherapy for cancer of the head and neck, Singaporean specialist Eng-Huat Tan and colleagues recounted in a letter to the British journal Annals of Oncology."

Read the rest at ABCnews Australia.

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