Doctors remove 51-pound tumor from woman (Image Warning)
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[url]http://uk.news.yahoo.com/doctors-remove-51-pound-tumour-jersey-woman-235308152.html[/url]
[quote=Article]NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey surgeons removed a rapidly growing, 51-pound (23-kg) cancerous tumour from a woman who had delayed treatment for more than a month until she became eligible for health insurance, her doctor said on Tuesday.
"She was a skinny lady with a huge belly. I mean it looked like she was literally pregnant with triplets," said Dr. David Dupree, who led the surgery on the 65-year-old woman, at Riverview Medical Centre in Red Bank, New Jersey.
"She was just all belly," he said in describing his first meeting with the patient, a homemaker from nearby Union Beach, New Jersey, who asked to be identified only as Evelyn, her first name.
About six to eight weeks before she showed up at the hospital, Evelyn noticed discomfort in her abdomen and that her normally 120-pound frame was rapidly ballooning. Dupree said she sought medical help on June 4, just days after her 65th birthday, when she would qualify for Medicare, the U.S. healthcare program for seniors.
"The reason she didn't go earlier was because she had no insurance," he said.
By now, she weighed more than 170 pounds, her legs were swollen with trapped blood, she was badly dehydrated, and, scans showed, the tumour - a malignant sarcoma - was crushing her inferior vena cava, one of the main veins returning blood to the heart, and putting her life in danger.
With her body too weakened to be operated on immediately, Dupree scheduled surgery for the following Monday, allowing time for her to become rehydrated and for her blood pressure to be brought under control.
But after she became short of breath on Sunday evening, Dupree brought the surgery forward.
"I knew that she wasn't going to make it through the night," he said.
"Either she goes now or she dies tonight," he recalled thinking.
Opening her up, Dupree and his team found the tumour, which appeared to have originated out of the fatty tissue around her large intestine, had engulfed many of her internal organs, and had to be sliced away "millimetre by millimetre" over the course of the five-hour surgery.
Evelyn was still recovering from the operation in a rehabilitation Centre on Tuesday, Dupree said. She declined to be interviewed.
Although the immediate threat to her life has passed, she must still see an oncologist about treatment for her cancer, which may not have been completely eradicated by the surgery, and may require chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Dupree said he would advise uninsured patients to see a doctor immediately if they knew they were unwell no matter how near their 65th birthday might be. He said the hospital would have operated on Evelyn regardless of her insurance status, but added he did not know whether doing so would have cost her more money.[/quote]
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jesus fuck
Put it in a blender
Feed it to louis
Throw it off a building (as said before)
Run it over with a semi-truck
Run it over with a tank
Shoot it with a pistol
Shoot it with a Shotgun
Shoot it with a machine gun
Shoot it with a rocket launcher
Put a grenade in it
man the shit you could do with this
That's disgusting.
Someone should try to grill it.
"She delayed treatment until she became eligible for health insurance"
-This is the sad state of our health care system. This wouldn't happen in Canada, I don't think.
For once, someone actually put a warning in the title.
[quote] who had delayed treatment for more than a month until she became eligible for health insurance[/quote]
Disgusting that this needs to happen.
SCP
The thing have grown veins as well? :byodood:
Imagine if it evolved to something more complex.
And then it ends up at the local kebab van
[QUOTE=RobbL;36635739]And then ends up at the local kebab van[/QUOTE]
Like happens to all other tumours? You're not funny when this is standard procedure.
[QUOTE=Kendra;36635782]Like happens to all other tumours? You're not funny when this is standard procedure.[/QUOTE]
What?
Jesus it looks like a giant heart.
It'd make a great sextoy.
It has veins?!
That is disgusting.
She had to wait until she became eligible for health insurance, while she was looking death in the eye with this fucking thing?
This NEEDS to be fixed. [b]Now.[/b]
[QUOTE=RobbL;36635893]What?[/QUOTE]
He's hinting that all tumors end up in the local kebab van.
[QUOTE=Krinkels;36636011]It'd make a great sextoy.[/QUOTE]
Ahhh hell noooo
[QUOTE=Dead Madman;36634719]Put it in a blender
Feed it to louis
Throw it off a building (as said before)
Run it over with a semi-truck
Run it over with a tank
Shoot it with a pistol
Shoot it with a Shotgun
Shoot it with a machine gun
Shoot it with a rocket launcher
Put a grenade in it
man the shit you could do with this[/QUOTE]
Reminded me of this
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8RuCSfOiBE[/media]
[QUOTE=DoctorSalt;36634782]"She delayed treatment until she became eligible for health insurance"
-This is the sad state of our health care system. This wouldn't happen in Canada, I don't think.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=AJisAwesome15;36636204]She had to wait until she became eligible for health insurance, while she was looking death in the eye with this fucking thing?
This NEEDS to be fixed. [b]Now.[/b][/QUOTE]
Canada has waiting lines too.
[url]http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/how-canadians-feel-about-their-health-care-wait-times-and-spending/[/url]
"A year for knee replacement surgery, six months for hip replacements, and three months for brain, prostate and breast cancer surgeries. And when it comes to cardiac bypasses, Mr. McConnell warned that “patients in Ontario are told they have to wait six months for surgery Americans often get right away.”"
I'm not sure if this would happen to be one of those cases, but still.
Anyone up for some basketball?
:v:
[QUOTE=QuikKill;36636525]Canada has waiting lines too.
[url]http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/how-canadians-feel-about-their-health-care-wait-times-and-spending/[/url]
"A year for knee replacement surgery, six months for hip replacements, and three months for brain, prostate and breast cancer surgeries. And when it comes to cardiac bypasses, Mr. McConnell warned that “patients in Ontario are told they have to wait six months for surgery Americans often get right away.”"
I'm not sure if this would happen to be one of those cases, but still.[/QUOTE]
her situation wasn't a waiting line; she delayed treatment because she couldn't afford it. big difference.
and in canada the severity of the condition determines the priority in which it's addressed. a knee or hip replacement isn't life-or-death, hence the longer wait period. if someone walks in with a 50 pound tumor you can be reasonably sure that it will get taken care of in a timely manner
[QUOTE=KaIibos;36636663]her situation wasn't a waiting line; she delayed treatment because she couldn't afford it. big difference.
and in canada the severity of the condition determines the priority in which it's addressed. a knee or hip replacement isn't life-or-death, hence the longer wait period. if someone walks in with a 50 pound tumor you can be reasonably sure that it will get taken care of in a timely manner[/QUOTE]
Fair enough, I'll try not to derail thread any more.
Oh jeezus, what the fuck... To think that was on a person once.
[QUOTE=Dead Madman;36634719]
Feed it to louis
[/QUOTE]
That!
send it to shoenice
I'm still trying to think how that would fit on a person. Did it protrude out, start on the inside and push everything inside about while it swelled? Brr
[QUOTE=Gears of duty;36635657]The thing have grown veins as well? :byodood:
Imagine if it evolved to something more complex.[/QUOTE]
"WE ARE TUMOR. WE ARE LEGION. YOU FOOLISH APES RIDICULE US IN POORLY CONSTRUCTED COMICS. NOTABLY THE ONE YOU FOOLS CALL 'DOLAN'. WHAT IS A 'GOOBY PLS' ANYWAY? DESPITE THESE CRIMES AGAINST TUMOR-KIND, WE OFFER YOU ETERNAL LIFE; WHAT DO YOU APES SAY? REMEMBER OUR BATTLE-CRY APES: ASSIMILATE ALL FLESH!
Something like this?
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