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Medical Must-See: Giant fungating tumour beggars be-leaf

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Right breast total mastectomy sample.

In a rare case perhaps more fitting for a horror movie, a middle-aged woman’s giant breast tumour broke through her skin and grew to epic proportions, Japanese doctors report.

The 52-year-old’s fleshy outgrowth posed an additional problem for clinicians, who had to settle on a “borderline” diagnosis of giant phyllodes tumour as a result of mixed histological findings.

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