Deflated
Officials at the University of Kansas Cancer Center want it back. “The giant, 150 pound, ten foot long inflatable colon is a great conversation starter,” says Dr. John Ashcraft, a surgical oncologist at the Center. But someone stole it. The enormous human colon model shows the difference between healthy and diseased colon tissue, and is worth $4,000. (RC/Kansas City Star) ...What you don’t want to know: what it was inflated with.Original Publication Date: 21 October 2018
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 25.
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