Doctors in China have removed what is believed to be the world’s largest tumour.
Nine doctors worked for a gruelling 16 hours to remove a 110kg tumour from a Chinese man, Yang Jianbin, who had to receive 5 litres of blood during the operation, reported the Mirror.
37 years ago Jianbin was born with a dark birth mark on his lower back. At the age of nine it began growing into a tumour and he had it removed at age 12, but it refused to stop growing.
Chief surgeon Chen Minliang of the Beijing hospital where Jianbin had the gigantic tumour removed, said that he suffers from a condition know as neurofibromatosis. “This is the biggest nerve tumour we have ever seen,” said Minliang.
Before the operation Jianbin said the tumour had greatly affected his life. He could only sit or lie down on a bed all day long.
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