Shark attack saves man’s life after cancer discovered

Although the species of the shark involved in this incident is unclear, the encounter follows a number of scrapes with hammerhead sharks in California recently.

He thought that he’d managed to escape the dramatic scenes with nothing other than a scar on his back.

The next day, a professional surfer was attacked by a great white shark and the beach was closed.

A man has said his life was saved by a shark attack when it revealed he had a cancerous tumour.

Dad-of-two Eugene suffered cuts and bruises and was left in significant pain after a shark smashed into him while he was swimming off the California coast.

‘Something made an impact to me from behind.

“That’s when my daughter said to me, Daddy, how come your back is all bloody?”

‘They had discovered a growth, or a tumor, on my right kidney about the size of a walnut’.

However the pain persisted for hours after the attack, spreading to his chest, so he chose to return home and seek medical attention for diagnosis.

Speaking to CBS Boston, Eugene added: “The shark was a real message to me”.

‘It was pretty jarring.

After subjecting him through an exhaustive series of tests, doctors told him that the pain was the result of bruising in his thoracic cavity from the blunt-force trauma of the hit.

Fortunately for Finney, the cancer was detected early, at Stage I. The tumor was successfully removed with a minimally invasive procedure and most of his kidney was preserved.

Mr Finney is now cancer-free, and will not require chemotherapy or radiation treatment. “That night I started having pretty serious chest and back pains”, he said. “I feel fortunate. I really feel like I’ve gotten a second chance at life and I’m not going to blow it”, he told CBS Boston.