I don't remember if I read it here but there was a dude who was riddled with cancer but when they biopsied it it had no human DNA. Dude had a tapeworm and the tapeworm had cancer and that's what spread (he was also massively immunocompromised, late stage AIDS maybe)
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2015/november/tumours-consisting-of-tapeworm-cancer-cells-found-in-human.html for the irl tapeworm guy.
The pilot of house had that crazy worm infestation but yeah that absolutely would've made an episode. But house was off the air in 2012 and this guy had a diagnosis in 2013, I guaruntee that's the only reason they didn't have it.
I don't remember if I read it here but there was a dude who was riddled with cancer but when they biopsied it it had no human DNA. Dude had a tapeworm and the tapeworm had cancer and that's what spread (he was also massively immunocompromised, late stage AIDS maybe)
Sounds like a House episode
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2015/november/tumours-consisting-of-tapeworm-cancer-cells-found-in-human.html for the irl tapeworm guy.
The pilot of house had that crazy worm infestation but yeah that absolutely would've made an episode. But house was off the air in 2012 and this guy had a diagnosis in 2013, I guaruntee that's the only reason they didn't have it.