Well this is ONE way to beat cancer, I guess. And even the most disgusting-sounding method of beating cancer, is still beating cancer, right?
37 year old Claire Osborn is a mother of six in Coventry, over here in good ol’ England. A few months back, she was driving and felt a tickle in her throat, and started coughing. She ended up coughing up a LUMP OF TISSUE (!!!!!????) that was the same color as liver.
Claire knew that that crap ain’t right, so she went straight to her doctor.
They tested the lump and found out it was a metastatic adenocarcinoma.
Now, I know like me, you didn’t quite finish your 19 year course in medical studies, so I’ll help you out. It is a serious type of cancer that can form in the back of the mouth.
Yep. That’s right.
She COUGHED UP HER OWN CANCER!!!!!!!!!
It’s SO aggressive that her doctors told her she’d still need chemo, even though she coughed up the bulk of it. But when they ran a test, they didn’t find any traces of cancer left. She fully coughed up the entire thing.
Claire had no idea that she had cancer, so coughing it up definitely saved her life.
Doctors say Claire was lucky she coughed hers up. Only about 5% of people with tumors in their mouth and throat find them accidentally. Usually they’re found after someone notices symptoms, like trouble swallowing.
It’s such a shame that she didn’t have a Kardashian in her throat.
Well, it might give a positive new meaning to the saying “I think I coughed up a lung”. Good for her but sort of ick?