WHAT a melon!
Surgeons have literally crow-barred a calcium stone out of a man's bladder in India.
Mahesbhai Rasikbhai Paten, 49, was admitted to hospital after suffering from excruciating pain in his abdomen overnight.
It turns out he had every right to be when surgeons discovered he had a 1.4 kilogram tumour (pictured below) in his bladder.
Doctors advise that spontaneous formation of stones inside the body isn't at all uncommon.
BLOOD tests, urine samples and biopsies could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a humble piece of chewing gum.
Scientists at US biotech firm Volatile Analysis have made a gum that could detect cancer.
Katherine Bazemore, ceo of Volatile Anlaysis teamed up with NGO Hudson Alpha to develop the product.
Patients will need to chew the gum for 15 minutes, during which time it will absorb the 'volatiles' in a person's saliva, namely chemical compounds released by certain types of cancer like pancreatic, lung and breast cancer.
The company hopes to make the gum available to doctors and patients next year.
According to the National Cancer Institute, there were an estimated 1.5 million new cancer cases diagnosed in 2016 in the US.
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