40-Pound Tumor Cut From 82-Pound Woman

Dr. Heinz Zurbruegg, a surgeon at the private Capital Health clinic in Berlin, said the 35-year-old had only a few weeks to live when she arrived in Germany for care in September.



But he said that after five operations by the surgeons, no traces remain of the bone tumor that once ballooned from her pelvis and represented much of her total body weight of 82 pounds.