http://www.heraldsun.com....5910187842

DOCTORS in Argentina have removed what they think is the world's largest malignant tumour from the body of a 54-year-old woman.

Weighing a shocking 23kg, the tumour had been growing inside the woman's womb for a year-and-a-half and took four hours to remove, The Daily Mail reported.

Oscar Lopez, surgical coordinator at Gandulfo hospital in Lomas de Zamora, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, said: "I've never seen anything like it in my 34 years of medical service.

"We removed a tumour whose weight is comparable to that of a four-year-old child.

"In layman's terms, it was as if this woman had been pregnant with quintuplets."

The woman had entered the operating theatre weighing 140kg and returned home 35kg lighter. She is said to be recovering well.

Tumours of the type removed from the woman usually weigh no more than 3kg.

It looks like ham.

Crazy. The human body AND what modern medicine can do to it never cease to amaze me.

TotalANXiousNESS said:

It looks like ham.

@ your drool

That is astounding that something like that could grow to that size in a year and a half. I expected her to be carrying that thing for 30 years! WOW!

Poor woman! Was she able to keep her uterus? Is she gonna get extreme cancer treatment now? That tumor was HUGE!

I wish I had lost 70 lb when I had my hysterectomy. My tumor was the size of a cantaloupe.

BklynBabe said:

I wish I had lost 70 lb when I had my hysterectomy. My tumor was the size of a cantaloupe.

Are you ok now??????

kpowers said:

BklynBabe said:

I wish I had lost 70 lb when I had my hysterectomy. My tumor was the size of a cantaloupe.

Are you ok now??????

oh yes! thanks for asking! I just had benign fibroids.

paintedlady said:

Poor woman! Was she able to keep her uterus? Is she gonna get extreme cancer treatment now? That tumor was HUGE!

after that who'd wanna

so she regularly has tumours removed? the last line of OP confuses me, the bit about normally they are only 3kg

ZombieKitten said:

paintedlady said:

Poor woman! Was she able to keep her uterus? Is she gonna get extreme cancer treatment now? That tumor was HUGE!

after that who'd wanna

so she regularly has tumours removed? the last line of OP confuses me, the bit about normally they are only 3kg

I think they simply mean the same type of tumor in the average woman, this being an extreme of that type of tumor.

FauxReal said:

ZombieKitten said:

after that who'd wanna

so she regularly has tumours removed? the last line of OP confuses me, the bit about normally they are only 3kg

I think they simply mean the same type of tumor in the average woman, this being an extreme of that type of tumor.

was it translated from spanish?

it says "the woman"

ZombieKitten said:

FauxReal said:

I think they simply mean the same type of tumor in the average woman, this being an extreme of that type of tumor.

was it translated from spanish?

it says "the woman"

I think it just means that the woman had a type of tumor that is usually only 3kg, but in her case, it grew much, much bigger.

ZombieKitten said:

paintedlady said:

Poor woman! Was she able to keep her uterus? Is she gonna get extreme cancer treatment now? That tumor was HUGE!

after that who'd wanna

BklynBabe said:

kpowers said:

Are you ok now??????

oh yes! thanks for asking! I just had benign fibroids.

ZombieKitten said:

paintedlady said:

Poor woman! Was she able to keep her uterus? Is she gonna get extreme cancer treatment now? That tumor was HUGE!

after that who'd wanna

so she regularly has tumours removed? the last line of OP confuses me, the bit about normally they are only 3kg

A tumor that huge... would more grow after this surgery? I see what you are saying because the OP posted "the woman" and not women with her condition. Um yeah if my uterus was a prone to 3kg tumors, then yeah, take it PLEASE.

I know a uterus shrinks back into normal position... but wow.... poor woman, can you imagine the stretch marks?!

Man, I wish I had a 50lb tumor to be removed as well. I`d be one skinny bitch!

JustErin said:

Man, I wish I had a 50lb tumor to be removed as well. I`d be one skinny bitch!

That's what I was thinking. In fact, a couple of years ago I was certain I had at least a 20 pound tumor growing in me. My dr took one poke at my stomach and said "nope, it's definitely just fat."

JuliePurplehead said:

JustErin said:

Man, I wish I had a 50lb tumor to be removed as well. I`d be one skinny bitch!

That's what I was thinking. In fact, a couple of years ago I was certain I had at least a 20 pound tumor growing in me. My dr took one poke at my stomach and said "nope, it's definitely just fat."

I know the feeling. I keep wishing there was something going on medically....but nooooo, it`s just cookies and laziness.

Damn.

Was it a fibroid tumor? I had a fibroid tumor removed about 9 years ago, but it was nowhere as big as that one. Yikes!