there are side effects of certain drugs really curious, from those that can color the skin to cause canicie almost at once, but that is to say a man 62 years 4 hours detained by the Immigration Department of the us because the drug that takes to chemotherapy had erased his fingerprints. And what is the drug in question? attentive criminals in the world, Capecitabine. That Yes, from now on, all patients taking this medication will need a letter from your doctor to enter us. the first attested case of this phenomenon occurred in Singapore and was published in the Annals of Oncology, describing as a patient who had suffered from cancer of head and subsequent metastasis, to which had been prescribed this drug to prevent the recurrence had lost their fingerprints
eight years ago, the great unknown is the European Medicines Agency warned that you among the side effects of the drug can appear swollen in plants and feet hands, with possibility of ulcers, blisters and bleeding. As Singapore oncologist had described, can lead to the disappearance of fingerprints:
those patients who have received dose of capecitabine for long periods of time can have problems related to the identification of fingerprints to enter in United States or in other countries and they should be noted in this regard. It is uncertain when his loss will occur in susceptible people being treated with the drug, however, is possible to have one increasingly greater number of these patients and must be properly prepared prior to travel ”.
OHS receives the name of syndrome mano-pie ” and apparently is not so strange, because in more than 13 clinical trials where we used the Capecitabine (alone or with other drugs) almost 50% developed a half year this syndrome, even exist other studies that raise the probability of suffering to a 60 per cent in high doses. For those who want to know it, this medication attack the metabolism of cells, preventing the uncontrolled multiplication of cells that it characterizes cancer, to be exact, it interferes with the multiplication of DNA and RNA, without which the cells cannot be played.
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