December 12, 2004
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By Tim Bonfield
Enquirer staff writer
Surgeons at University Hospital removed a 66-pound tumor from the abdomen of a woman from Peebles, Ohio, a little over a week ago.
The 1.5-hour operation wasn't easy. At various points, team members had to lift and roll the heavy tumor from side to side to allow surgeons to disconnect blood vessels feeding it from underneath.
Once fully disconnected, it took four sets of hands to lift the slippery, watermelon-shaped mass out of Radtke's body. They rolled the tumor onto a stretcher, then sent it to the pathology department, where tests confirmed that it was not cancerous.
Grace Radtke entered the hospital weighing about 245 pounds. She left weighing about 160 pounds and extremely relieved that the tumor wasn't cancer.
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I saw an operation just like this on the Discovery channel Health show. In it, a woman went in weighing over 200 lbs and came out weighing 95 pounds. The tumor had drawn so much weight from the rest of her that she looked like she was starving afterwards. It took about two years for her to get back to looking well-fed.
whoa...
66 pounds...that's a hell of a tumor...
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