Monday, 28 October 2013

TV Documentary : The Man with Huge Breasts


In 2010,Guo Qingpo who was a 53-year-old farmer in Shandong province of China,came to Jinan Mastopathy Hospital.He had what's called gynecomastia in medical term.He was the fifth case found in the world and the first in China.About 10 years ago,he noticed his breasts were larger than other men's ,but he thought he was simply putting on weight and did't pay much attention.From the year 2008 onward,his breasts began to grow extremely quickly from as big as steamed buns to basketballs.His breasts weighed about 5 kilograms each,just like two big water melons and they caused much inconvenience to his life.People in his village labeled him a freak and even accused him of undergoing sex-change operation.He became introverted due to this condition,unlike the way he was in the past when he was so sanguine that he's a mainstay of literature and art in his village.Desperatly, he had visited lots of hospitals in major cites and spent all of his savings, but none of them could explain why he’d such disease.And Jinan Mastopathy Hospital,which was his last hope,invited more than 20 specialists from around the country to have a group consultation concerning Guo’s rare condition.They believed that Guo Qingpo suffered from lipodystrophy syndrome, a metabolic condition which involves the abnormal distribution of fat around the body.Eventually,they come up with a plan for operating on Guo to remove the boobs...

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