SPANISH researchers have revealed some surprising side-effects of new cancer therapies, with 14 patients being treated using the drugs seeing their grey hair turn back to brown.
A total of 52 subjects were participating in a study of side effects from treatment with Keytruda, Opdivo and Tecentriq.
When the first patient's grey hair was restored to its former lustre (see the 'before' and after' pics below) Dr Noelia Rivera thought it must be an isolated case, but found similar results when she asked other patients to send in photos from before their treatment commenced.
All but one of the hair-changed patients responded positively to the treatment, suggesting hair darkening could be an indication that the drugs are working.
And while we're on the subject of hair, the exhumation of the body of famous artist Salvador Dali has seen his iconic moustache amazingly preserved in the grave.
The body has been removed from a crypt beneath the Dali Museum in Figueres, Catalonia as part of a paternity case.
Narcis Bardalet, who embalmed the artist's body after his 1989 death, helped with the recovery and said he was delighted.
"His moustache is still intact, like clock hands at 10 past 10, just as he liked it. It's a miracle," he said.
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