Cancer Drug Causes Patient To Lose Fingerprints And Be Detained By US Immigration

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 07:15 in Health & Medicine

Immigration officials held a cancer patient for four hours before they allowed him to enter the US because one of his cancer drugs caused his fingerprints to disappear. His oncologist is now advising all cancer patients who are being treated with the commonly used drug, capecitabine, to carry a doctor's letter with them if they want to travel to the US.

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