‘Overweight’ man’s 55lb tumour missed by doctors for nine years

A MAN whose malignant tumour went unnoticed by doctors for nine years discovered it had grown to a weight of 55lb when an operation was finally carried out to remove it.

Trevor Smithson, 53, of Yateley, Hampshire, says he was told to lose weight by experts at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, who failed to notice the growth despite carrying out three operations on him.

When he was finally referred to the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, the surgeon there asked him: “So you’ve not been to see your doctor for years and years, have you?”