Dispensary Corner 13 Jan 12
January 13, 2012
COUGH cancer away.
A UK woman, Claire Osborn,
recently coughed up a tumor she
didn’t know she had.
Osborn was driving when she
had a coughing fit and expelled a
“heart-shaped lump of livercolored
tissue”.
Subsequent hospital tests
revealed that the lump was in
fact metastatic adenocarcinomaan
aggressive form of cancer.
Doctors told Osborn that she
had a 50/50 chance of survival and
would need chemo and surgery.
Follow-up tests to ascertain
how much cancer was left
revealed the cancer was gone.
“The consultant turned round
to me and said, ‘It appears you
have coughed up your cancer’,”
Osborn said.
Speaking about the case, Osborn’s
surgeon said “We suspect the
tumor grew on a stalk at the back
of her mouth, somehow she
dislodged this and the stalk snapped
and she coughed up the tumour”.
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