translated from Spanish: Woman gets cancer by eating nails

United States-Courtney Whithorn, of 21 years, ate nails for several years without thinking that this habit so common in many people, would develop you cancer. It even caused that they amputaran him a finger. The young woman confessed that eat nails calming their anxiety, disorder that began since her teens, saying that he suffered from bullying in your school. One day, he told his thumb nail broke and never again returned him to grow, and then formed you in your finger a blackish until in the middle of last year, he decided to go to the doctor, told Daily medical Mail.Los you diagnosticaaron subungu melanoma EAL acral lentiginous, a type of cancer that is often developed by certain lesions on the skin, especially in the fingers of the hands or feet. Now the girl has undergone four surgeries to be able to remove all of the skin affected by cancer, however they had to amputate a finger. According to doctors cancer was caused by lesions on the finger, product of biting the nails, however some people close to the young think that it is not so.

“While the traumafisico is has associated with the appearance of some cancers of skin, is very little likely that biting is the nail has caused this cancer”, said the dermatologist Nis Sheth, spokesman of British Skin Foundation, to the MailOnline.Dicha news is spread in them networks since last year, however the young woman gives her testimony and recommended people not to make this habit, pointing, it led to the amputation of his finger and have developed cancer.

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