A 65-year-old woman underwent a series of operations in 1999 to eradicate a rare type of cancer called gastric mucosal adenocarcinoma. She was eventually declared cancer-free, but doctors accidentally left something behind during the operation. A case study detailing her surgical straggler was published in July 2022 in the Cureus Medical Journal. The patient remained “asymptomatic” for nearly the entire 20 years the medical accessory was in her body. She didn’t notice anything was awry until she experienced two days of severe abdominal pain, fever, night sweats and swelling.Read Long Article
