A woman with a rare genetic disease that affects 0.03 percent of people in the world has developed a tumor so large it feels like a ‘back pack on your neck’.
Alexandra, 30, from Goppingen, Germany, says the mass – which is benign – is so large it encompasses 20 percent of her body weight and is nearly half her height.
The growth has expanded gradually over the past two decades, beginning in elementary school as a ‘hazelnut-sized’ bump on