{"id":782058,"date":"2026-09-25T10:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T10:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/782058\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T10:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T10:28:10","slug":"a-tumour-the-size-of-a-football-saved-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/782058\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A tumour the size of a football saved my life&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After calling NHS 111, Carroll was sent to hospital in Coventry where medics discovered a 12cm cyst on her right ovary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was told it did not appear particularly sinister and was placed on a waiting list for surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Within a month, a cyst the size of a fist had grown to the point that I could feel it like a football in my stomach. Pain and discomfort got worse and I felt shattered emotionally and physically&#8221;, she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By December, scans revealed the tumour had grown to 20cm and was beginning to rupture, so three days later she underwent an emergency procedure to remove the tumour, a fallopian tube, her appendix and surrounding tissue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two weeks later, doctors gave her the diagnosis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After calling NHS 111, Carroll was sent to hospital in Coventry where medics discovered a 12cm cyst on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-782058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}