Woman has 'basketball-sized' breast tumor removed

October 23, 2019  10:56

A Chinese woman, 47, allegedly let a gigantic breast tumor grow for two years unchecked until it had reached the size of a basketball, Fox News reported. Doctors said that she walked into the out-patient clinic holding the tumor up because it was so heavy.

"You could tell something was odd from the start, because she walked in holding a large object by her chest," Dr. Wu Jian, of the Third People’s Hospital of Chengdu, in Sichuan Province, told AsiaWire. "But had she not had surgery, the tumor would have burst through her skin,” he told AsiaWire. “Because of the amount of nutrition it was absorbing, it would’ve caused problems such as anemia and malnutrition. It’s very seldom you see someone willing to let their tumor grow to such a size, to the point where she has to lift it with her hand in order to leave the house. Don’t let this happen. It only leads to increased physical trauma during surgery, and further complicates the operation.”

Photo: AsiaWire

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