A 32-year-old New York man says he suffered burning chest pains for a decade. When doctors performed an MRI, they discovered the largest heart tumor ever recorded.
Heart tumors---which are usually benign---are quite rare. They can still be deadly if they impede the function of the heart.
“They told me it was probably nothing, and I would accept it. I would go home, I would take some antacid medicine or something like that,” Cohen recalled to CBS NY. “But I really kind of felt something was off.”
When he got an MRI, they found that he had a tumor on his heart the size of a tennis ball.
“Jake’s tumor is the largest one I have ever seen,” said Dr. Yoshifumi Naka, who is a surgeon at New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Medical Center, according to the CBS affiliate. “The tumor is inside the tumor capsule and then expanding, expanding, expanding,” he said.
The tumor could have been growing since Cohen was born.
Cohen’s tumor, fortunately for him, was benign. “I feel extremely lucky,” he said.
“Now, three, four days a week in the gym and trying to get in good shape, and really just trying to live a really healthy life,” he added.
The Cleveland Clinic says that “cardiac tumors are abnormal growths in the heart or heart valves,” adding that they’re rare.
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