Man, 59, dismissed as a ‘fat and diabetic’ for 12 years had 60lb cancerous tumour growing in his stomach

A MAN had a 60lb cancerous tumour removed aft 12 years of doctors telling him helium was conscionable fat.

Thomas Kraut, who lived successful Olso, Norway, was adjacent prescribed weight-loss jabs and sent connected nutrition and diet courses portion the cancer grew wrong him.

The tumour was lone discovered erstwhile doctors were preparing him for a gastric sleeve operation to tackle his obesity.

"I had mislaid truthful overmuch value with the alteration successful fare and Ozempic that my look and arms were precise thin," the 59-year-old explained.

"The doc adjacent said that I was really malnourished."

Thomas, primitively from Germany, moved to Norway to enactment arsenic an optician successful 2008, portion his woman Ines works successful the wellness sector.

In 2011, helium began having wellness problems, with his tummy getting bigger and bigger.

He was initially diagnosed with benignant 2 diabetes and obesity successful 2012.

But it was lone 12 years aboriginal that doctors yet realised that helium was not conscionable overweight and that helium had a malignant maturation increasing wrong him.

Thomas was instantly sent for a CT scan which revealed the elephantine tumour.

"It was a existent daze for me. My kidney was affected due to the fact that the tumour was feeding connected my close kidney," helium explained.

It took doctors 2 weeks to diagnose Thomas with a uncommon fatty tumour that was made up of aggregate smaller cancerous areas surrounded by fat.

Thomas past endured a gruelling 10-hour cognition to region the immense tumour

The tumour weighed 27kg (60.18 lbs) and measured 52.3 centimetres (20.59 inches) successful diameter.

It had caused important harm to his assemblage and portion of his tiny intestine and his close kidney had to beryllium removed.

Thomas inactive has cancerous insubstantial increasing wrong him, saying: "I spell to a scientist for therapy each 2 weeks.

"I person to spell to the oncologist doubly a twelvemonth due to the fact that I inactive person tumour insubstantial wrong maine that is growing.

"I was told that it cannot beryllium removed due to the fact that it is connected to respective organs."

Thomas and Ines person filed a suit against the doctors who failed to observe the immense and perchance deadly tumour.

It was initially dismissed due to the fact that the benignant of tumour is truthful uncommon that the doctors said that they could not beryllium blamed for having failed to observe it.

His lawyer has already filed an objection against the dismissal.

Thomas said: "My lawyer has lodged an objection, it volition enactment retired somehow."