Brazil Unknown

A resident of the city of Caceres, Mato Grosso, went to the police station to register a bulletin of occurrence (BO) against his wife for recurring betrayals.   In the record, he says that he has already witnessed several betrayals and that he even caught his wife in bed with another man. The man also said that he tried to contain the betrayal by damaging the woman's bicycle so she would not leave the house.   The document was classified as "atypical nature", which isn't considered a crime by the police. The complainant should to appear at the police station later this week to explain the offensive terms that were used in the description of the fact. There is no information on the names of those involved in the case.

It was just to be a joke, when the Brazilian José Gerardo Soares Filho, 18, a nursing student, decided to take a pregnancy test and the result was positive. It was in January of this year during a class. Upon showing the exam at home, her mother thought the result was the boy's girlfriend. But not. The hormonal alteration that gave a false positive pregnancy was due to a rare cancer: TGC (germ cell tumor, choriocarcinoma), located in the mediastinum (thoracic region). According to a study by researchers at the Cancer Hospital A.C. Camargo, this type of cancer is very rare, presenting in small germ cell tumors of the mediastinum. It affects young men (15-35 years old) and rarely women. They are usually not very large. One of the symptoms is precisely a high rate of serum b-HCG - the same hormone produced by pregnant women and detected in the pregnancy test. Gerardo was then submitted to chemotherapy sessions. At the beginning of June, despite a clinical improvement, the exams s