AMERICANALMANAC (Ken Jacobs) - Australian man's Stage 4 melanoma vanished after heart surgery — then a strange new allergy appeared
A 60-year-old Australian man watched his terminal skin cancer disappear months after an unrelated heart operation, only to develop a life-threatening bee allergy he had never had before. The man, identified only as "Mr. A" in a case study published by BMJ Case Reports, had been diagnosed with Stage 4 melanoma that had already spread […] The post Australian man's Stage 4 melanoma vanished after heart surgery — then a strange new allergy appeared appeared first on American Almanac .
A 60-year-old Australian man watched his terminal skin cancer disappear months after an unrelated heart operation, only to develop a life-threatening bee allergy he had never had before. The man, identified only as "Mr. A" in a case study published by BMJ Case Reports, had been diagnosed with Stage 4 melanoma that had already spread to multiple lymph nodes, his liver, and his left thigh bone. Doctors put him on aggressive chemotherapy, but the side effects forced him to stop treatment, and the tumors had not shrunk. His prognosis was grim. At that stage of melanoma, only about 35 percent of patients survive five years. Then his heart intervened, not figuratively, but literally. A dangerously narrowed heart valve required surgery,…Open