Emory University Hospital Midtown. Source: Google Maps

Doris Lewis thought she was gaining weight, but WSB-TV reports that doctors discovered something more serious going on.

The TV station reports that surgeons at Emory University Hospital Midtown removed a 27 pound tumor from the woman’s stomach. The tumor had grown to the size of a beach ball.

“As this thing had grown, it had displaced her internal organs up and to the left,” Dr. Alan Gordon told WSB-TV.

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