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A scan of C.K. Gunsalus' head shows the large tumor, lower right, that was pushing on her brain before its removal.
URBANA – For years, even decades, a war went on within C.K. "Tina" Gunsalus' skull.
And through those years, her brain lost ground, squashing up against itself as a tumor grew into the size of a baseball, an insidious mass making a place for itself where her brain once resided.
If it sounds like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," it almost was.
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