Last summer Len Barchanowicz, 45, experienced sharp pangs in his neck that felt like a pinched nerve. After about a week, his symptoms intensified and he experienced chest pain and trouble breathing normally. “He was telling me, ‘Oh my neck is really hurting me,’” wife Lauren Barchanowicz, 38, of Finleyville, Pennsylvania, tells TODAY.com. “I’m like, ‘I think you should probably get it checked out.’” The couple visited the emergency room where doctors found an orange-sized mass in his chest.
Ranjita Pallavi, a medical oncologist and Len Barchanowicz’s doctor at Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh, tells TODAY.com. “He turned out to have something called a thymoma, which is a tumor that arises from the front of the chest,” says Pallavi. “When we see a mass in that area we’re thinking of something arising from the thymus gland.
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