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Brain Cancer Scare Turns Out to Be Tapeworms

A 60-year-old man in Spain with multiple brain lesions was suspected of having metastatic cancer.

A headache that looked exactly like brain cancer

A 60-year-old man in Spain walked into a doctors office with a headache he could not shake.

What the first scans showed

During a neurological exam, doctors found only a mild delay in the mans movements and no other obvious deficits.

The cancer hunt that found nothing

The workup was thorough.

How a brain tapeworm gets in without a passport

The finding was a genuine surprise, because tapeworms are not endemic to Spain and the patient said he had not traveled.

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