How a shark attack saved a man from cancer

After a few minutes, he was struck something that jarred him so much it gave him “instant whiplash.”

Later when he came out of water, his daughter noticed his back was covered in blood.

Now, here’s something you’ve probably never heard: A Massachusetts man says his life was saved because of a shark. While in the water, Finney collided with a shark.

Being attacked by a shark is certainly not going to make it into anyone’s definition of having a lucky day.

Despite a long gash on his back, Eugene decided it wasn’t worth a hospital trip.

The newspaper reported that Finney, 39, had been at Huntington Beach in Orange County, Calif., with his girlfriend and two children, his 6-year-old son, Turner, and his 10-year-old daughter, Temple, to visit his parents.

Finney managed to struggle back to shore.

Shortly after he returned to the beach, Mr Finney’s girlfriend Emeline McKeown spotted what could have been his attacker as a shark’s dorsal fin breached the surface, prompting lifeguards to evacuate the water. “They had discovered a growth, or a tumour, on my right kidney about the size of a walnut”, Finney said.

“The pain was caused by interior bruising of the thoracic cavity due to blunt force trauma”, Finney told CBS Boston. They told him it was genetic, and Finney inferred that he likely inherited the condition from his maternal grandmother, who died of stomach cancer.

Mr Finney is now cancer-free, and will not require chemotherapy or radiation treatment.

Finney told the San Jose Mercury News that it was the hardest he’d ever been hit in his life.

“I really had no idea what happened”.

Surgeons were able to salvage 80 percent of Finney’s kidney, removing 20 percent to eradicate the cancer.