Drug erases fingerprints, causing immigration drama for oppressive statists

IT sounds like the stuff of science fiction: a drug that removes your fingerprints.

But capecitabine is not the work of a criminal mastermind with a PhD in chemistry. Rather, it is a common cancer drug, routinely given to patients with head, neck and kidney cancers.

The drug's fingerprint-obliterating side effects were discovered when a cancer patient, 62, from Singapore, travelled to the US last year. Immigration officials found he had no fingerprints because capecitabine had caused so much redness and peeling.

Customs officials held the man, known only as Mr S, for four hours before deciding he was not a security threat, according to a letter published yesterday in the Annals Of Oncology journal.

Doctors said very few patients temporarily lost their fingerprints while on capecitabine.

"Most patients will complain they're having difficulty holding things or sensing things," said Dr Otis Brawley, the chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society.

LNK

Drug erases fingerprints, causing immigration drama for oppressive statists

Drug erases fingerprints, causing immigration drama for oppressive statists

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