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Mr Gurrieri visited a specialist after the warning from Dr Britt. The growth was removed last month after tests revealed that he had the rare condition, which affects just three in a million people. Dr Britt said:
“It’s the sort of diagnosis you might make once in a career if you’re lucky. It’s so rare most GPs wouldn’t have seen patients with it.”
Mr Gurrieri said that he owed Dr Britt his life — and a few meals at his Italian restaurant in Canary Wharf, where the pair initially met.
“I am so very grateful to Chris — I feel incredibly lucky I met him when I did.”
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He is believed to have had the condition for up to five years and had been feeling unwell for some time. “I always had big hands but I noticed in recent years they had become quite chunky. I put it down to DIY at home and working in the kitchen,” he said.
“I had noticed my face becoming more fleshy too. I went to a school reunion last year and I recognised everyone but I thought it was strange that no one recognised me.” A surgeon removed 92 per cent of the tumour in an operation last month.
Mr Gurrieri, who has a seven-year-old son, must now take medication to keep the condition under control.
"My mum thinks Chris is my guardian angel," he said.
"I could have lost my sight, or I could have had a number of other ailments, so I think I owe my life to Chris - and a few meals at the restaurant."
Dr Britt, who works as a GP in Woodford Green, said he had not seen a case of acromegaly since he was a medical student working in a specialist hospital.
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