Surgeon catches cancer from patient for 'first time in history' during operation A surgeon operating on a cancer patient managed to catch the deadly disease in what is thought to be a first-of-its-kind event.
After visiting a hand specialist, the lump was identified as a malignant tumour genetically identical to the cancer suffered by his former patient.
The doctor performing the surgery accidentally “transplanted” the disease into himself when his patient’s tumour cells seeped into a cut on his hand.
Doctors treating him concluded he had caught the cancer when his patient’s tumour cells seeped into the cut.
Doctors mentioned the "accidental transplantation" of the patient's malignant fibrous histiocytoma - an ultra rare cancer with only 1,400 diagnoses reported each year.
