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April 19, 2013

Strange But True!

Q. How big was the largest tumor ever removed intact from a human body? a) about 50 pounds b) 100 pounds c) 200 pounds d) over 300 pounds

A. The answer is NOT a), though “big as a beach ball” was the 56-pound benign ovarian cyst removed from a 70-year-old Texas woman at Medical City Dallas, 10 years after she first started noticing her stomach bulging, reported Meghan Neal in the New York Daily News. That tumor was “the weight of an average 7-year-old kid.”


 
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