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Two boys develop lung cancer after ‘breathing in’ malignant cells from their mothers’ cervical tumours in birth canal – Yahoo Canada Shine On
‘I didn’t know this was possible,’ said one expert.
The two boys are alive after being treated for lung cancer. (Stock, Getty Images)
Two Japanese boys are thought to have developed lung cancer after breathing in malignant cells from their mothers cervical tumours in the birth canal.
An unnamed 23-month-old boy, whose mother was diagnosed with cervical cancer three months after his delivery, was taken to hospital when he endured a cough for two weeks.
Doctors later diagnosed the toddler with lung cancer.
An unrelated case resulted in a six-year-old…
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