Woman reportedly coughs up cancerous tumor

[Celebration]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57358098-10391704/woman-reportedly-coughs-up-cancerous-tumor/?tag=re1.channel

British woman reportedly made a shocking discovery following a nasty coughing fit. When she brought the odd-looking tissue that came out of her mouth to a doctor, the doctor told her she had hacked up a cancerous tumor.

Claire Osborn, 37, felt a tickle in her throat moments before the mass - which she described as looking "like a strip of liver" - came out, reports The Daily Mail. Once a doctor performed a biopsy on the mass, it was revealed the woman had a metastatic adenocarcinoma in the back of her throat.

Osborn was given only a 50 percent chance of survival after being diagnosed with the aggressive cancer that grew in the back of her throat, saying the cancer had likely spread to other parts of her body. Follow-up scans, however, failed to detect any tumors. Doctors removed some cancerous cells from Osborn's tongue and her doctor gave her a clean bill of health.

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"We suspect the tumor grew on a stalk at the back of her mouth which is very difficult to detect," Walton said. "Somehow she dislodged this and the stalk snapped and she coughed up the tumor."

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. She was very lucky!

I wish all cancers would end like this one did.

[kestrel91316]

2. I won't tell y'all about the stuff a feline patient of mine coughed up

a few years ago. It had a really severe chronic rhinitis/sinusitis.

It actually presented as an emergency, came in literally choking on - well - please just take my word for it that it wasn't pretty, and a large piece of it stuck to the wall when we got the cat breathing again and she coughed.

Antibiotics did wonders for her. But don't ever let goo like that dry on the wall. Gotta chisel it off.