An 83-year-old Liverpool man who had a tumour the size of a football removed from his scrotum has urged people to go to the doctor if they find a lump.
Bob Day, of Speke, had a sarcoma tumour weighing 9lb (4kg) and measuring 30cm (12 inches) long removed at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
Mr Day said he put off getting the lump checked for a year as he "doesn't like a fuss".
He said he went to the doctors when his family spotted it through his clothes.
"You could see it in my trousers. The tumour was getting bigger and bigger but I kept putting it off - I don't like a fuss," he said.
"I wasn't in pain. If I had been in pain, I probably would have gone earlier."
He said: "I was still doing the gardening and doing everything as normal."
