Infants acquire lung cancer during delivery: report
Two cases show the fetus can develop the disease during birth if mother has cervical cancer
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Doctors in Japan say they have uncovered two cases where young children developed lung cancer after acquiring cervical cancer cells from their mothers during delivery.
The team used next-generation genetic-sequencing techniques to link the child tumours to the mother’s cervical cancer which, in one case, had not been diagnosed at the time of delivery.