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Weight loss woman's tumour shock

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26 July 2012 Last updated at 03:56 ET

A retired civil servant has told of her shock at learning the weight she was struggling to lose was a football-sized tumour lodged in her stomach.

Val Best, 69, of Highwoods Square in Colchester, Essex, decided to get fitter after the death of her cab driver husband Roger in 2010.

Surgeons at Colchester hospital removed a tumour which weighed 7.5kg from the 69-year-old.

She said: "Now I'm absolutely fine, I'm fit and healthy, a new me."

The mother of four said her concerns grew because no amount of exercise seemed to shift the bulge over her abdomen.

"I was trying to lose weight after my husband died," said Mrs Best, who used to work in the job centre.

"I thought 'I'm getting older and I'm getting fat and I'd better lose weight or I'll get diabetes or something like that'.

"I wasn't succeeding and I was feeling like I was nine months' pregnant," she said. "But at 69 and a widow I thought I can't be nine months' pregnant. So I went to the doctor."

I did ask the surgeon whether he could do me a tummy-tuck at the same time but he said 'no'

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