] team of Romanian and U.S. doctors say they have ] successfully removed a tumor weighing 175 pounds (80 ] kilograms) from a woman patient in an operation lasting ] 10 hours. ] ] Lucica Bunghez, 47, had been largely confined to bed ] because of the tumor, which weighed almost double her ] body weight and covered her back, waist and hips. ] ] "She is very well, the lack of the tumor really suits ] her," Ion Lascar, head of the plastic surgery department ] of Floreasca Hospital in Bucharest, told reporters on ] Wednesday. Understatement of the century! The lack of a tumor weighing 2x your normal body weight would really "suit" pretty much everyone I'd think. LB CNN.com - Doctors remove 175 pound tumor - Jan. 22, 2004 |