Take My Tumor

I watched two episodes last night, featuring three cases: a woman with a tumor that hung down her back like a cape, a woman with a lipoid at the base of her spine, and a man with a ten-pound tumor on his right jaw.

It's clear this series seeks to exploit the popularity of Dr. Sandra Lee's "Pimple Popper" series, which has been on for a number of years. Although this is exclusively about tumors. It follows the exact same formula: a long background story of the patient, the procedure, and a follow up weeks later.

In this, it suffers from the same problem as Lee's show, lots of back story, little surgery. While the procedures are hours long, the time in the OR cumulatively is reduced to a relatively few minutes. So, effectively, the show centers on the patients' plight and the successful results. Thus it's more about the drama of the patients' condition, than about removing the tumor.