This is really remarkable: a woman had all her abdominal organs removed, for the extirpation of a tumor. Brooke Zepp, 63, from South Florida, was found, in May 2007, to have leiomyosarcoma, a rare cancer type, located deep inside her abdomen. The tumor had wrapped itself around woman's aorta and other arteries delivering blood to vital organs like the stomach, intestines and spleen.
Doctors refused to operate saying that the abdominal space was too tight for the tumor to be removed with...
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