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Updated: Friday, March 10, 2017, 2:31 PM

A Pennsylvania woman who thought she was just gaining weight over the years is now half her size after doctors found a 140-pound cancerous cyst in her.

Mary Clancey, 71, had ballooned to 365 pounds and thought little of it for the last two decades.

I just kept getting chubbier and rounder, Clancey, a resident of St. Clair, Pa., told the Daily News. I went to my doctors off and on. It was just like, keep your mind on your diet.

She thought it wasnt anything more than gaining weight as she aged. Photos of her late grandmother and aunts showed short, fat round people when we got older, she said, so that was her destiny.

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But about six months into retiring from her job at a candy counter where she was on her feet for eight hours a day she noticed her leg had more and more pain.

A few years earlier, Clancey had a blood clot in her leg, and the recent pain made her think she had another one.

So she went to the hospital where doctors ordered a CT scan and found the tumor, she recalled.

Clancey was moved to Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allentown, Pa.

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Doctors spent five hours removing the the 140-pound mass, which turned out to be cancerous.

It was slowly killing her, Dr. Richard Boulay, her surgeon, said at a news conference Thursday.

He added that the tumor was so large it couldnt completely fit on a CT scan.

A second table had to be brought into the operating room so doctors could take the mass out of the woman.

Clancey, who now weighs about 180 pounds and is cancer free, said she still has some leg problems and currently uses a walker to get around. But she credits the blood clot and the pain from it with making her go to the hospital.

A blood clot saved my life, she said.

About 40 pounds of skin were removed, too, Clancey said.

She added doctors are looking at whats causing her nagging leg pain, but for the most part her life is back to normal.

I can eat everything. I can do everything, she said. Life is good and everything is in place. But the story is absolutely insane.

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