During a weekly game at the home for the aged, the bingo caller began choking and then collapsed.
He was rushed to emergency, and immediately went into surgery.
It appeared 40 years of calling bingo games in smoky halls had caught up with him.
The surgeon successfully removed a mass blocking his windpipe.
After waking from the surgery, the caller asked the surgeon if the mass was malignant.
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