A DOCTOR’S note might be needed by cancer patients who want to enter the US but whose fingerprints have become unreadable due to the side effects of a common cancer drug.
The warning comes from oncologists in Singapore, who have found that one of their patients was detained by US when he tried to visit his relatives, all because of a side-effect of a drug called .
Capecitabine is used to treat cancers including those of the colon and breast. It is also used against nasopharyngeal cancer, when it seems to work best in people…
