He received chemotherapy for five years for cancer that he never had

In Colorado, USA, a man who had received chemotherapy and intensive treatment for five years was surprised to discover that he had never had cancer.

James Salaz said he had received five years of chemotherapy and analgesic treatment to treat a strange and unusual kind of cancer, but he recently discovered that he had never suffered from what the doctors had diagnosed him a long time ago.

James said that in 2012, he was constantly hurting in the armpit. He went to the doctor and an abnormality was detected in his left lung.

After several studies, Dr. Choon-Kee Lee, his doctor, biopsied him. He then learned that he had a Langerhans cell histiocytosis (HCL). It is a disease that causes the abnormal spread of these cells, the bone marrow, into different tissues of the body.

The illness that, according to the patient was rare, so decided to go with other doctors from different hospitals who confirmed that he was actually suffering from the disease.

Immediately after James discovered that he had this strange cancer, he decided to go for treatment and received intense chemotherapy, potent analgesics, and lung biopsies. Despite everything, his symptoms and anomalies still touched him.

In 2017, the doctor who looked after him and who diagnosed the disease was discharged from the hospital. James did not have any choice but to go with another doctor, who informed him that he had never had cancer.

The doctor explained that she was suffering from a condition called vasculitis, which is an inflammation of the blood vessels. She informed him that if the disease had been treated five years ago, everything would be fine. Now, because of the time elapsed, he progressed granulomatosis with polyangiitis.

Due to the repeated chemotherapy to which he was subjected, the man also suffers from pancreatitis, a disease with which he will have to live and for which he had to be hospitalized twice.

Now that you need to approach your new diagnosis, you need a rheumatologist, but in the area where you live, there is a lack of these specialists. She will have to wait between six and eight months for a consultation, even though she admits that she "is afraid to go to the doctor" after the nightmare that she has been through.