Man Survives Huge ‘Alien’ Tumor

February 6, 2011 7:40 PM

A scan of the ‘alien’ tumor pulled out of a Northern California man.

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — When Josh Abken told his doctor he was having persistent back pain about a year ago, the doctor took an x-ray.

The Chico-area school vice principal said he was stunned to learn what was growing inside him.

“You think you got a serious muscle pull or something, [but] the doctor has that serious doctor face you see on TV,” Abken said. “They didn’t really know what was growing inside of me.”

They named it Gill: A soccer-ball size “alien” tumor that had become as solid as a rock and even had growing tentacles.

Abken and his family made shirts bearing the motto “Kill Gill,” based on the movie posters for the film “Kill Bill.”

The husband and father of two said doctors told him the giant tumor was beginning to put pressure on his heart, shove his lungs out of position and even squash his stomach downward. It apparently had been growing for at least a decade.

“My kids are pretty young, they knew Daddy had a big ‘owee,’” he said.

Thoracic surgeon Costanzo Di Perna was able to remove the tumor before it killed Abken, but required several hours of surgery before it was all gone.

“Trying to take out this large, calcified tumor, hard like a rock, created a difficult surgical experience,” Dr. Di Perna said.

Abken will continue to receive PET-CT scans to see if the tumor will return, but he has stayed cancer-free for about a year.

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[...] “When Josh Abken told his doctor he was having persistent back pain about a year ago, the doctor took…. “You think you got a serious muscle pull or something, [but] the doctor has that serious doctor face you see on TV,” Abken said. “They didn’t really know what was growing inside of me.” They named it Gill: A soccer-ball size “alien” tumor that had become as solid as a rock and even had growing tentacles. Abken and his family made shirts bearing the motto “Kill Gill,” based on the movie posters for the film “Kill Bill.” The husband and father of two said doctors told him the giant tumor was beginning to put pressure on his heart, shove his lungs out of position and even squash his stomach downward. It apparently had been growing for at least a decade.” w/ photo + video [...]
lll

gross. I need to get my head checked.
Tumor necrosis factor receptor

Melanoma is often a process and growths are the end result of these procedure. Just becoming less or detaching the tumour does not solve the method that resulted in the growth. For you to cure …tumors
Paul S.

@ Hank Warren:
You know not of which you speak (or write). How do you know that “Obamacare” would have denied thig [sic] guy? You don’t know at all. You’re just spouting off because you don’t agree with universal coverage. I don’t agree with universal coverage either, but I’m not going to state such blatant lies because I have a problem with it.
Please city which protesters have been placed in cages; please cite where/when/why/how “America Deceived II” has been banned; please cite how the internet has been censored; who has confiscated guns? Please explain how bodily searches conducted by the TSA infringes our 4th & 5th Amendment rights? Please try to remember that it was George W. Bush who started the undeclared wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
K

You need to up your meds. Seriously.
Anonymoose

I agree with the basic idea that this kind of treatment would not be denied under a universal health system. But what’s this about putting (sic) after the misspelling of the word “this”. Honestly, none of us have all day to perfect our copy. Show a little decency. You don’t need to insult someone just because you disagree with them.
PapaJack

How do you know Obamacare will take care of it in 2014. There are going to be fewer, less paid doctors, fewer insurance companies, fewer businesses providing insurance because it will be cheaper to pay the fine than provide the insurance
I believe it was Al-Queada that flew into the twin towers that started the war. Clinton could have had Osama Bin Laden killed if he wasn’t to busy defending not having sex with that woman. This whole mess we are in can be blamed on several administrations, both left and right.
Rebecca

Then why hasn’t Obama finished the war in Afghanistan? Why promise to bring our troops home (a political promise) only to turn around and send out troops to Afghanistan? What would Gore, Obama, or any Democrat have done in Bush’s place on 9/11? Oh, that’s okay, here’s my other cheek! All is forgiven, and I apologize if America has done anything to offend you.
Ric

I’m sorry you are so ignorant but the congress and senate voted almost unanimously to go to Iraq and the 2 hold outs were Ron Paul and Maxine Waters, one from each side. that would make it both bi-partisan and very legal unlike President Clinton’s rendition program that sent prisoners to Egypt to be tortured, not water boarded, but really “pull your finger nails out and put a hot poker to your eye” tortured!
Why is the left always playing hypocrite with such simple things?
BTW Obamacare will bankrupt the country because a)we can’t pay for it and B)you can take from peter to give Paul without Peter losing what he has, in this case earned and c) 90% of Americans were happy with their health care (Obama’s 30 million without health insurance figure) that would be the highest percentage of Americans to be happy with anything, ever! The only reason to mess with it is redistributing the wealth which just discourages innovation and risk, which will leave no producers to pay for anything. We call that the Domino effect.
Paul S.

I was replying to Hank Warren’s ridiculous assertion (where it is he, not me) that goes off topic to blame Obama for our two undeclared wars. What you fail to see is the red herring that Mr. Warren throws out there. He makes a snide remark about how this tumor wouldn’t be treated under universal healthcare then goes on to pontificate about protesters in cages, banned books, internet censorship, gun confiscation, ad nauseum.
Gillian Marktoo

blatant lies are mostly funded by the insurance idustry. They have paid hundreds of trolls to keep up the confusion.
Keith T Williams

Here’s somethihing to think about. A socialist/communist country will soon be the most powerful economic country in the world. China’s economy will soon be bigger and more prosperous than ours. True their human rights suck, but not all socialism is bad. You need the right mixture of socialism and capitalism to prosper.

If you don’t the rich become too greedy, powerful, and corrupt like they have here in the states.
christhi

Well the problem with socialism is that actually you have a bunch of State capitalists who become as much corrupt and disconnected from the people than in a place like the US. That seems to be the situation with China, hence why there are so many popular uprisings these days and high-level bureaucrats sleeping with big foreign corporate execs.

…but aren’t we supposed to talk about tentacle Alien monsters?
watinka

It’s … “too” busy…
Jim Jones

I don’t know if you caught this, but Obama campaigned on continuing the war in Afghanistan. He was against the war in Iraq. Those are two different countries.