Well, I’m back to not eating beef again.
How much do you think that would be per pound at the butcher’s shop?
Probably not much if tripe, tongue and oxtails are any indication. But I’ll bet Andrew Zimmern would have a field day!
Dr. Ahnuld: “It IS a tumah!”
Well, the story says the woman weighed 140kg, which is about 300 lb. I’ve got some 300 lb friends, I could see them hiding a large tumor like that. Hope she has a full recovery.
She only weighed 105 without the tumour, though. Which is still pretty big, but not HOT DAMN YOU’VE GOT A MEATBALL THE SIZE OF TEXAS IN YOUR ABDOMEN-hiding capable.
A better example would be to type in “23 kg in pounds” in the google search field, you get the answer at the top of the page.
For the metrically impaired, a kilogram (kg) is 2.2 pounds. So you can get a good idea of the actual weight just by doubling the kilograms.
Animals usually have huge tumors too.
Why would they x-ray unless they suspected already it had bone? They would most likely weight it, measure it, take a lot of pictures, and carefully cut it into different pieces that can be fixed in formalin, and from that take even smaller representative areas to put into cassettes that will turn into slides.
They’ll probably get several sections of margins (especially if they removed it with some “healthy tissue” around it), perhaps some of the core, and of any places that look interesting during gross examination.
I forgot until just now, but my friend put her (obese) labrador to sleep recently because they found out she had a giant, malignant abdominal tumor that was smushing her organs. She didn’t have any symptoms until she started vomiting, they took her right in, then after a scan were told she had only a few painful months to live unless they wanted to pursue very expensive surgery.
I guess it can happen to anyone. 50 pounds was a record-breaker though - for a malignant tumor in humans. Apparently there have been cases of benign tumors weighing over 100 pounds.
I know animals have large tumors, I’ve seen some 10 pound hemangisarcomas. We cut off a few pieces to send off for histopath but never the entire tumor if it can’t fit in a small formalin jar. I always thought they had to be more thorough with people and basically wondered if they had to slice up the whole thing to check all the margins.
As for an xray, it was in the uterus so, yes, I thought they might check to see if it was once a fetus.
It’s interesting that the article describes it as “what they think is the world’s largest malignant tumour.” Does that imply there are records of larger benign tumors?
How do they dispose of something that big and disgusting?
Well, I suppose they’ll keep it for study. But when a hospital gets rid of body parts or tumors that aren’t going to be interred in some manner, how do they do it?
Incineration, probably. Isn’t most medical waste burnt?
I still can’t bring myself to click on that link.
Oh yes indeed: 300 pound tumor
Now you know why so many people do not like hospital food.
OK, but do you realize how many women don’t go to the doctor pronto when they suspect pregnancy? It’s more common than you think, in which case medicine might not get involved until month 9 or so.
Is that Chris Collinsworth narrating?
It doesn’t look any different than a big round of beef in a butcher shop.
Actually, the record is 300 pounds (136 kg), removed from a woman in 1991 at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, California.
Yep. He was the host of some eps of the “Guinness Book of World Records” Series that ran on Fox in the 1990s or so.