They originally believed their patient had brain cancer, only to later discover he actually had worms inside his head. The ...
When cysticerci enter a person’s central nervous system, it’s a disease called neurocysticercosis (NCC), which is the ...
A man in Spain who feared he had brain cancer turned out to have something else in his head: tapeworms, Gizmodo reports. The ...
Americans underwent 93 million CT scans in 2023, and researchers now estimate that radiation from those exams could ...
About 40% of cancers among Americans can be attributed to potentially modifiable factors such as smoking, drinking, obesity, and physical inactivity. If a widely reported study from earlier this year ...
Doctors suspected metastatic brain cancer in a 60-year-old man, but scans revealed pork tapeworm larvae causing ...
A 60-year-old man in Castellón, Spain, was treated for suspected metastatic brain cancer this year before doctors discovered ...