Woman Denied Bank Transaction Because Chemo Erased Her Fingerprints - Polidicks

[IMG]http://a.abcnews.com/images/Health/ht_fingerprint_2_kab_150422_4x3_608.jpg[/IMG] [URL="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/woman-denied-bank-transaction-chemo-erased-fingerprints/story?id=30498992"]http://abcnews.go.com/Health/woman-denied-bank-transaction-chemo-erased-fingerprints/story?id=30498992[/URL] [QUOTE]After a rare side effect of chemotherapy left a woman without fingerprints, she was denied a bank transaction, according to a case study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The woman, who is not identified by name, was 65 and had undergone chemotherapy three times to fight stage IV triple negative breast cancer, according to the study. As a result, she developed hand-foot syndrome, a rare side-effect of certain chemotherapy drugs, like capecitabine, that causes swelling on the hands and feet. "She was distressed because she went to do the procedure with the bank and also because she was planning to travel to Europe and, you know, in the border we need to use our fingerprints," said the woman's oncologist, Dr. Yanin Chavarri-Guerra, who authored the study. "Those things were stressing her."[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Anywhere from 45 to 68.3 percent of people on the chemotherapy drug capecitabine develop hand-foot syndrome, according to an article published in the Cancer Investigation Journal in 2002. It's not clear how many of those people lose their fingerprints.[/QUOTE]

Cancer sucks.

That finger nail. [i]ew..[/i]

I didnt know such a thing even existed. She could start robbing places and they will never be able to find her prints

To be fair, I doubt the border patrol and the banks really ever planned for something like this to come up

[QUOTE=ejonkou;47584769]That finger nail. [i]ew..[/i][/QUOTE] your body is probably not in the best condition after cancer and chemo

Sucks, but how the bank reacted was right.

What about people with no hands/arms? You would think the same thing applies to her?

But, I can see the fingerprint, like pretty clearly. Yeah sure it's faint and I don't doubt that it'll have an effect on any systems that require fingerprints for security but surely there has to be another method of verifying her for security purposes, cause having one method of proving who people are seems like a pretty fucking terrible idea.

[QUOTE=black_tech;47589382]What about people with no hands/arms? You would think the same thing applies to her?[/QUOTE] idk dude you'd be going pretty far to lose your hands/arms just to steal from one bank account

[QUOTE=Rapscallion92;47589398]But, I can see the fingerprint, like pretty clearly. Yeah sure it's faint and I don't doubt that it'll have an effect on any systems that require fingerprints for security but surely there has to be another method of verifying her for security purposes, cause having one method of proving who people are seems like a pretty fucking terrible idea.[/QUOTE] There surely must be, but I guess the bank (or more specifically whoever the woman was dealing with at the time) did not account for the possibility of someone losing their fingerprints through chemotherapy and they did not think about using the additional verifications straight away.

[QUOTE=green bandit;47585118]your body is probably not in the best condition after cancer and chemo[/QUOTE] yeah it's genuinely sad but it's objectively ew

[QUOTE=uitham;47589480]yeah it's genuinely sad but it's objectively ew[/QUOTE] I mean fuck, you don't have to point it out...

i still don't get what kind of transaction they needed her fingerprints for. they mention that she was going to travel so maybe it was for a passport or something but itd be easier to understand this if they clarified this a little

[QUOTE=uitham;47589480]yeah it's genuinely sad but it's objectively ew[/QUOTE] there are worse fingernails than that.. come on.

[QUOTE=Cmx;47584809]I didnt know such a thing even existed. She could start robbing places and they will never be able to find her prints[/QUOTE] Her fingerprint was changed, not erased.

[QUOTE=Ericson666;47585061]To be fair, I doubt the border patrol and the banks really ever planned for something like this to come up[/QUOTE] A few places do. Imo, I'm surprised that they didn't. We wrote an access control system for a university a few years ago. One of our biggest challenges was people without fingerprints [which is surprisingly more common than you think (depends on type of work/physical stuff you do I think. Only started looking into why it happens shortly before I left, so don't have too much detail on that. Sorry :/)]. Landed up having to setup an override system if it failed 3 times [which created a bit of a security issue (thank you engineering students for so graciously pointing that out, several times)]

What the fuck chemotherapy can do that?

I'll have ten chemotherapies please.

[QUOTE=Cmx;47584809]I didnt know such a thing even existed. She could start robbing places and they will never be able to find her prints[/QUOTE] Having no prints is just as unique as having them in this case, don't you think? :v: