The wound was disinfected and dressed with a bandage, but months later and the surgeon noticed something was seriously wrong ...

The procedure was being carried out on a 32-year-old man from Germany - who was suffering from a rare type of cancer and was ...

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine, doctors detailed the 'accidental transplantation' of the patient's ...

A past case of a surgeon having accidentally "transplanted" a rare type of cancer from a patient into himself during a ...

In an even more unusual case, a surgeon did once catch cancer from a person he was operating on. The doctor was performing a ...

Tests found that the surgeon did not have any signs of immune deficiency and the tumor was successfully removed from his hand. When it was tested, it was found that the tumor was a malignant fibrous ...

The 53-year-old surgeon accidentally 'transplanted' the cancer into himself when his patient's tumour cells seeped into a cut ...

A German surgeon contracted cancer from a patient during surgery in a rare and unprecedented medical case, according to a ...

A surgeon performing an operation on a cancer patient accidentally ‘transplanted’ the disease into himself, in what is ...

A doctor operating on a cancer patient accidentally ‘transplanted’ the disease into himself in what is believed to be a ...

A surgeon has been diagnosed with cancer after operating on a 32-year-old man from Germany who was diagnosed with a rare form ...

A surgeon has accidentally "transplanted" a patient's cancer into himself after the disease seeped into a cut on his hand ...