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After nearly a month in recovery, Clancey is back home, working Straight into the lighters for sale to regain her balance as a lighter woman. Over 15 years she kept getting bigger despite dieting.Made up predominantly of water, the tumor was "slippery and nasty," Boulay said. 10. But by the time she went to the hospital, it had become difficult for her to walk and even stand.: Mary Clancey said she was resigned to being a plump old lady.."The tumor didnt really cause her pain.What doctors found astounded them: A cyst in one of her ovaries had grown into a 140-pound tumor. "You cant imagine in your wildest dreams something that huge," she told Philadelphia TV station NBC10. Richard Boulay, who performed the operation, said the mass was so big it didnt even fit in the picture taken by a CT scan.Going in, Clancey weighed 365 pounds."It was slowly killing her," Bouley said Thursday during a news conference at the hospital.

Clair, Pennsylvania, said doctors told her just to watch what she ate.Doctors at Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allentown removed the cancerous, Stage 1 mass in a five-hour operation Nov.Allentown, Pa.Doctors said tests show she is cancer-free and does not need further treatment, The Call reported.Dr. She weighs less than 150 pounds and said she feels great. "It just made itself comfortable in there," she said.

To help in the removal of the tumor, a second table had to be moved next to the one on which Clancey was lying so the mass could be rolled out without it rupturing, The Morning Call reported. After five hours in surgery, she lost 180 pounds of tumor and tissue, about half her weight, the doctors said. But with her health deteriorating, her son persuaded her to go to the hospital.As she was gaining weight, Clancey, 71, of St. At just over 5 feet tall, she said she felt destined to become "a short round, fat little old lady