Woman coughs up her own tumor

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Turns out, she'd expectorated some metastatic adenocarcinoma, which is doctor language for "she spat up an aggressive, deadly cancer that probably originated at the back of her mouth." They told her she'd need chemotherapy and gave her 50% odds of surviving, but when they scanned her for remaining cancer cells, there were none to be found. She literally hacked up her fucking cancer oh my god.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
 

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Zoombie, within four minutes, you've posted two threads with the grossest imagery of any thread I've seen on this forum.

Do you get some sort of award for that? :D
 

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*deep breath* A cat spitting a hairball. A cat spitting a hairball. *deep breath*
 

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I hope she can live for the rest of her days without revisiting the nightmare-haunting image of a hacked up bit of cancer.
Nightmare? It's a dream come true.
 

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I now have visions of the following conversation unfolding somewhere in the world:

Doctor: Well, it's throat cancer.
Patient: Oh no!
Doctor: With chemo, radiation, and surgery, your prognosis is fairly promising.
Patient: Thank God for that.
Doctor: Unfortunately, your HMO only allows for this new treatment that's just hit the market.
Patient: And that is...?
Doctor: Coughing really, really hard.
 

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Holy crap, did she have pneumonia? Who coughs that hard?
 

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I now have visions of the following conversation unfolding somewhere in the world:

Doctor: Well, it's throat cancer.
Patient: Oh no!
Doctor: With chemo, radiation, and surgery, your prognosis is fairly promising.
Patient: Thank God for that.
Doctor: Unfortunately, your HMO only allows for this new treatment that's just hit the market.
Patient: And that is...?
Doctor: Coughing really, really hard.

I'm thinking USA. Call me jaded.
 

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If she had choked to death on that tumor, what would have been the cause of death?
 

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I have a really hard time believing this story.

1. No remaining cancer tissue at all? It was it's own little glob with no anchor cells?
2. No blood supply. Cancer is a resource hog because it grows so fast. She wouldn't just cough up tissue, it'd be bleeding like crazy.
3. Most cancer grows embedded in the tissue and takes over existing space rather than growing in its own little bubble outside of the rest.

Now, stranger things have happened, but consider me a skeptic.
 

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I have a really hard time believing this story.

1. No remaining cancer tissue at all? It was it's own little glob with no anchor cells?
2. No blood supply. Cancer is a resource hog because it grows so fast. She wouldn't just cough up tissue, it'd be bleeding like crazy.
3. Most cancer grows embedded in the tissue and takes over existing space rather than growing in its own little bubble outside of the rest.

Now, stranger things have happened, but consider me a skeptic.

It does sound odd. I've heard of patients coughing up lung tissue as a symptom of lung cancer - it's not common but it happens. Or it could be a solid mass of sputum. Cancer is usually connected to existing tissue and there'd more than likely be cancerous cells in the surrounding area.
 

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It does sound odd. I've heard of patients coughing up lung tissue as a symptom of lung cancer - it's not common but it happens. Or it could be a solid mass of sputum. Cancer is usually connected to existing tissue and there'd more than likely be cancerous cells in the surrounding area.

Add to it the "heart shape" cancer piece. The first thought that popped in my head was that cancer must have hired a PR agent for that one.
 

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I read this yesterday. An incredibly lucky lady.
 

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Did she spit it into a pot in the corner and made a "ding!" sound?