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  • Woman believed to have malignant tumor actually had tapeworm growing in her brain

    06/02/2019 12:02:37 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 34 replies
    KCCI ^ | Jun 1, 2019 | Kate Malongowski 
    The 42-year-old New York woman had trouble remembering words. She tried calling relatives who had died. She was having hallucinations and would drop things suddenly, WABC-TV and TODAY reported. “My episodes were getting more and more bizarre,” she told TODAY. “There were days that I didn’t know where I was.” After countless doctor’s appointments, an MRI scan show[ed] a marble-sized lesion on the left side of her brain, which likely was a malignant tumor. When she underwent a three-hour surgery to have the growth removed, doctors found something unexpected: a baby tapeworm. "We were, like, overjoyed," Dr. Jonathan Rasouli told...