Tumor Is Actually Tree

This is probably one of the strangest medical stories any one’s seen in a long time. A Russian man’s suspected lung tumor was found to actually be a five-inch-long seedling. Doctors said it was impossible for him to inhale something that big, so the tree must have grown in his lung from a bud he inhaled.

Doctors x-rayed his chest and found a tumor in one of the lungs. Suspecting cancer, they made a decision to perform biopsy, but when they cut the tissue, they were amazed to see green needles in the cut.

“I blinked three times, and thought I was seeing things. Then I called the assistant to have a look,” says Vladimir Kamashev, doctor at the Udmurtian Cancer Center.

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