Cancer cells transmitted from a common tapeworm appear to have caused cancer-like tumors in a Colombian man with HIV -- the first known case of what's called "malignant transformation," U.S. health ...

In 2013, doctors at hospital in Medellin, Colombia, tried to find out why a 41-year-old man suffering from HIV was having trouble breathing. Scans revealed tumors in his lungs, but they had never seen ...

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A Colombian man developed a cancerous tumor from a tapeworm that grew inside his lungs, scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Natural History Museum in the ...

A new study from the CDC suggests cancer cells originating in a common tapeworm may take root and cause cancer-like tumors in people with weakened immune systems. The discovery is the first known case ...

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The recent report of a tapeworm infection turning into possible cancer inside a 41-year-old man sounds more like a horror movie premise than science. But it is real, and has led to questions about ...

The dwarf tapeworm, or Hymenolepis nana, is the most common tapeworm in humans. It's 2 inches long at most. In January 2013, a 41-year-old man came to a hospital in Medellin, Colombia. He was in bad ...