A man from Scottsdale caught a lucky break to have a watermelon-sized tumor removed from his neck after the sore grew for nearly two decades. FOX 10's Lindsey Ragas has the story.
A Scottsdale man with a tumor the size of a watermelon is getting his life back to normal after dealing with the growing mass for nearly two decades.The tumor has finally been removed thanks to a television show that helped Arizonan Tim Retter get it extracted for free."It weighted 5 ¾ pounds and somedays it felt like it was 50. I mean, it was just heavy," Retter said.He first began to notice the bump in 2007 and that was just the start of the whole ordeal.
"Retter was assured that the tumor was benign at first but soon it became an annoyance in his every day life and work as a mechanic. Last year in 2023, he received a life-changing call.Dr. Ryan Osborne of Take My Tumor was the one who removed the surgery after years of suffering.Osborne said the procedure came with a few risks, including First Bite Syndrome and the possibility of nerve damage."The other risk was that he was harboring an occult cancer," Dr. Osborne said.
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