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If you feel the weather in your bones, this might be why  The Washington Post Source link

A man suffering from an aggressive form of lung cancer experienced an extremely rare complication of the disease – with one of his fingers and toes swelling unexplainably.  It turns out, the bones in his digits had been ‘completely replaced’ by cancerous tumors as the cancer spread throughout his body.   The 55-year-old from Australia had been diagnosed with metastatic squamous-cell lung …

A man developed painful swelling in his right middle finger and right big toe over the course of six weeks, causing the digits to take on a club-like shape. It turned out that the strange swelling was a rare sign of cancer that had spread through his body. Prior to developing the swelling, the 55-year-old had been diagnosed with metastatic …

Burmese pythons can grow up to 19 feet (almost six metres) in length. Such a big body requires big meals. They eat prey as large as cattle – and they eat them whole. No tearing into bite-size chunks, no chewing. Everything goes down all at once, bones and all. Snakes that are fed a boneless diet suffer from calcium deficiency, so digesting skeletons is important for their health. But how they avoid absorbing …