Laking gulat ng mga doktor pagkatapos nilang makita ito sa katawan ng isang babae nang magpa-check-up

After this woman from Costa Rica topped the headlines because of her extremely huge tumor, she became viral on the cyberspace. A woman named Sonia Lopez, 57-year-old postpone the procedure for eight years for her private reasons, but when the growth of her tumor took over 80% of her abdomen and her tumor was already crushing her intestines, liver, and diaphragm, she was then eventually forced to go under the knife. When she had her tumor removed she had already dropped six stones, however, due to the pressure that it puts on her organs the growth of Lopez tumor might cause her to suffer a heart attack.

She finally went under the knife at the Hospital Mexico near San Jose after she suffered from breathing problems. In order to extract a 5.35 stone, five-and-a-half feet round growth tumor inside her, the operation of her need to involves five surgeons.

Because of how huge her tumor is, Lopez' surgeons think that she had just broken a world record. Mrs. Lopez is currently waiting for the results to determine if the growth is cancerous or not and also she is recovering well. Sonia Lopez told in an interview:

“I was very tired and felt very ill beforehand. “From how I felt before to the way I feel now, it’s like a journey from the sun to the Earth. I feel like I’ve been born again.”


After she experienced breathlessness, she was told to have an instant operation. Surgeon of Lopez said: “We see three or four giant tumors every year but never something this big.

 “This is the largest we know about in Mesoamerica. In the Guinness Book of Records, the heaviest on record is 30 kilos (4.72 stone) and this one was 34 kilos (5.35 stone).” “This tumor grew in such a disordered and rapid fashion in such a short space of time that we had to act quickly. “These tumors that grow so fast are not normally malignant because if they were they would metastasize and they either need to be treated to eliminate or reduce them or they kill the patient before they have the capacity to grow so much.”


Here are some of the reactions of the netizens about Sonia Lopez' situation:

"No doctor had noticed anything wrong with her before I got to that size? Unbelievable." 

"I just hope her personal reasons for leaving it so long wasn't due to financial reasons. That is so wrong on so many moral grounds."

"Its very sad. All medicine develops because of taxpayers and they basically left without medical care. It became all about money, not service to people as suppose to be." 

"Why didn't she Ave it removed it B4 it got that big." 

Since woman's bodies are designed to carry more weight, the giant tumors are much more common among women according to Mr. Sibaja. What are your thoughts about this tragic experience of this woman? Are you conscious of your health? Kindly share and give your comments and reactions to us.

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