Dad Had Rare Watermelon-Sized Tumor In Chest, Struggled To Breathe

Meghan Holohan is a digital health reporter for TODAY.com and covers patient-centered stories, women’s health, disability and rare diseases.

A month after contracting COVID-19 in January 2021, Nicholas Pastuovic was tired, had a severe cough, experienced hot flashes, and woke in the middle of the night “drenched with sweat.” He worried he developed long COVID and made an appointment with a doctor. Testing revealed a surprising cause of his symptoms — a watermelon-sized tumor in his chest. “To hear you have cancer is scary,” Pastuovic, 61, of the Chicago suburbs, tells TODAY.com.

“My mindset was, ‘I want to go to Florida in February,’” he recalls. Before hitting the beach, Pastuovic needed to undergo surgery to remove the remaining cancer. By this time, the tumor was softball-sized. “The seriousness of the surgery was pretty significant because there were major blood vessels intertwined with this tumor,” he says. “When they got me into the operating room, I thought they were planning a party because there were probably 15, 20 people there.

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