January 7th – Japan’s National Cancer Research Center announced on the 7th that the cancer cells were metastasized to the abdominal baby during childbirth, and two male infants have been found to have been diagnosed with lung cancer.
Such medical records are the first confirmed worldwide. The relevant research results have been published in the American Medical Journal New England Journal of Medicine.
According to Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun on the 7th, a Japanese research team detected genes that did not belong to the cancer cells in two babies. The mother of both babies was diagnosed with cervical cancer after giving birth.
The research team found that the lung cancer of infants and the uterus cancer of the mother are arranged in the same virus and metastasize cancer cells.
Lung cancer is extremely rare in children. According to the National Cancer Research Center of Japan, when the baby first cry at birth, it inhales amniotic fluid mixed with the mother’s cancer cells and spreads it to the lungs.
Researchers used anti-cancer drugs on a baby, and the cancer cells basically disappeared. This may be because the baby recognizes cancer cells from the mother as foreign bodies, and the efficacy of the drug is very obvious. Another baby was surgically removed from cancer cells.
Chidenyo Ogawa, head of the Pediatric Suptake Section of the Central Hospital of the National Cancer Research Center of Japan, said that this is an extremely rare case, but it is very important to prevent cervical cancer through pregnancy examination and vaccination.
Etsuko Miyagi, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Yokota City University, also said: “It’s shocking that the mother’s cancer metastasizes to her child. At the time of childbirth, cervical cancer also has the possibility of further development.”
