After surgery and chemotherapy, the 73-year-old woman is in good health.
The woman, who has not been named, went to the hospital when a lump in her belly button started bleeding.The woman was sent to A&E two days after the growth began to bleed, where she was treated by Dr Javier Barambio at the Hospital Universitario Fundacion Jimenez Diaz in Madrid.
She underwent scans, which found that the painful lump was in fact 9.5cm deep and that she had fluid in her abdomen. Doctors also found cancerous cells in the woman’s peritoneum; the thin layer of tissue that lines the inside of the abdomen. that the woman had ovarian cancer, which had spread from her pelvis and caused the growth, called a Sister Mary Joseph’s nodule.
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