{"id":1199,"date":"2012-11-10T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio.purdue.edu\/lab\/leung\/blog\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2012-12-30T15:17:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T20:17:13","slug":"a-guy-tested-positive-on-a-pregnancy-test-turned-out-he-had-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/a-guy-tested-positive-on-a-pregnancy-test-turned-out-he-had-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"A guy tested positive on a pregnancy test.. it turns out that he had cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting story that I came across last week. It started with a guy playing with his ex-girlfriend&#8217;s pregnancy test&#8230; and the result was positive! He told his friend about it and he made <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rage_comic\">a rage comic<\/a> and posted it on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/\">reddit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bio.purdue.edu\/lab\/leung\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/11d61f97de91b5471ae4353cf39b779b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"651\" height=\"721\" imagescaler=\"http:\/\/www.bio.purdue.edu\/lab\/leung\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/11d61f97de91b5471ae4353cf39b779b.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Several users pointed out that he should check with his oncologist, and he did. As it turns out, he had a rare form of testicular cancer that would produce human chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone that is being detected in the pregnancy test. This (un)fortunate incident helped his early detection of the cancer and saved his life.<\/p>\n<p>They announced the<a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/oG492\"> update <\/a>through another rage comic again.<\/p>\n<p>Boing boing has <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/11\/08\/positive-pregnancy-test-diagno.html\">an elaborate discussion<\/a> of the science behind this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting story that I came across last week. It started with a guy playing with his ex-girlfriend&#8217;s pregnancy test&#8230; and the result was positive! He told his friend about it and he made a rage comic and posted it on reddit. Several users pointed out that he should check with his oncologist, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[232,231,234,235,233],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faisharing","tag-hcg","tag-pregnancy-test","tag-rage-comics","tag-reddit","tag-testicular-cancer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}