Nurse here. I work in a very rural hospital, and we have a patient population that seems to avoid the hospital at all costs. I have had so many, usually related to diabetics with foot sores- almost always resulting in amputation of a toe (or more). However, my favorite was an elderly farmer who came in with chest pain that, …
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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 …
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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 …
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