Cancer drug erases fingerprints (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

A commonly-used cancer drug can make patients' fingerprints disappear, potentially causing problems for foreign travel, a doctor warns.

One patient was held by US immigration officials for four hours before they allowed him to enter the country.

The case is highlighted in the journal Annals of Oncology.

The patient's doctor, Eng-Huat Tan, from Singapore, advised all travellers to the US being treated with the drug capecitabine to carry a doctor's note.

Dr Tan, based at the National Cancer Centre in Singapore, said several other patients had also reported loss of fingerprints on blog sites, with some also having problems entering the US.
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x( Imagine having cancer AND being detained by ignorant yahoos at Homemade Security ...

[villager]

1. why am I suddenly seeing vast black market potential for this drug?

n/t

[Xipe Totec]

4. Wait! Let me think...

Nope, I'm drawing a blank.

An image was forming in my mind, but now it's gone...

Erased...

:evilgrin:

[LiberalFighter]

5. Along with fake doctor note's

[Mythsaje]

2. Yeah... Keith mentioned it.

Pretty strange side effect.

[islandmkl]

3. soon to be detailed on "Why Did We Tell Anyone That?"...

[shadowknows69]

6. Right? The black market is trying to figure out how to get a script right now

[cherokeeprogressive]

7. Paper will take away your fingerprints. I worked for a major printing firm as a teenager...

I was a "press helper". It was my job to put the finished product into cardboard boxes. After about three weeks of working with paper and cardboard, the pads of my fingers were as smooth as a baby's butt. We used to laughingly talk about what we were going to get away with due to the fact that we had no fingerprints.

That was 1979.