The procedure was being carried out on a 32-year-old man from Germany - who was suffering from a rare type of cancer and was ...

A German surgeon contracted cancer from a patient during surgery in a rare and unprecedented medical case, according to a ...

The wound was disinfected and dressed with a bandage, but months later and the surgeon noticed something was seriously wrong ...

While the case was originally reported in 1996, it has resurfaced with renewed interest. Published in The New England Journal ...

A surgeon has accidentally "transplanted" a patient's cancer into himself after the disease seeped into a cut on his hand ...

In an even more unusual case, a surgeon did once catch cancer from a person he was operating on. The doctor was performing a ...

A surgeon is believed to have caught a rare form of cancer from a patient in what is thought to be the first case of its kind ...

A doctor operating on a cancer patient accidentally ‘transplanted’ the disease into himself in what is believed to be a ...

A surgeon performing an operation on a cancer patient accidentally ‘transplanted’ the disease into himself, in what is ...

The 53-year-old surgeon accidentally 'transplanted' the cancer into himself when his patient's tumour cells seeped into a cut ...

A surgeon has been diagnosed with cancer after operating on a 32-year-old man from Germany who was diagnosed with a rare form ...