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Doctor removes 51-pound tumor from a New Jersey woman (gnarly pics)

Evelyn was on death’s door when she arrived in the emergency room last month, breathing with the help of a machine and “maxed out on blood pressure medication,” said Dupree.
Slender and small-boned, the woman thought she was just putting on weight when her belly suddenly began swelling two months earlier.
“I wasn’t in pain, but I was really uncomfortable,” she said. “But I couldn’t go to the doctor right away because I was going to be 65 in June and had to wait for the Medicare to kick in.”