'Astonishing' 9lbs tumour removed from her chin after it had been growing there for 18 years

The team at Moti Lal Nehru Medical College in Allahabad, India, claimed that such giant pleomorphic adenomas are 'very rare' in medical literature. In the woman's case report, surgeons led by Dr Ashutosh Rai wrote: '[To] find such large tumours even in modern times is astonishing.' The unnamed 47-year-old told doctors the unusual-looking mass (right and inset - an MRI scan of the tumour) had been growing for nearly two decades before she had it chopped off. In comparison, newborn babies weigh around 7lbs. (pictured left, after the surgery)