Doctors in India remove 33.5kg tumour from woman's body

Ooty - It took 3 hours of surgery to remove the tumour.

Doctors in India removed an ovarian tumour weighing 33.5 kg from a woman's body.  
 Vasantha from Ooty noticed her stomach growing in size but ignored it as she did not feel any pain or discomfort initially. However, with time she started to experience pain as the size of her abdomen grew larger.
"Pain was the main cause and it was unbearable. I was not able to walk, not able to have proper food and also suffered from breathlessness. Then I finally decided to visit a doctor," said Vasantha told ANI news agency.
The doctors at a local medical clinic conducted tests and discovered a huge tumour. She was referred to Coimbatore-based hospital where the tumour was removed by a team of doctors including Dr Senthil Kumar, Dr Piyush, Dr Anita, and Dr Satish Kumar.
Dr Senthil Kumar said, "We noticed her discomfort, she was struggling to walk and was having a lot of problem in breathing, and she had fear because she was told that if they operate, she won't survive."
"We further investigated with more scans and investigations, and we found that it was a very large tumour which was occupying the whole abdomen, and it was also compressing the inferior vena cava which carries the blood from the lower half of the body to the heart, because of the compression, she was having the dilated veins all over the abdomen," he added.
It took 3 hours of surgery to remove the tumour.
"The original weight of the patient when she came here was 75 kg, and after the operation, we weighed the tumour, which was about 33.5 kgs. After sending it for biopsy, we got to know that it was ovarian cancer," the doctor said adding  that it is the heaviest ovarian cancer operated worldwide till now.
" The maximum size of the tumour removed in India is 20 kgs in AIIMS Delhi and Pondicherry. We have already got approval and certification from Indian Book of Records and Asian Book of Records, and we have sent it for approval to World Book of Records and Guinness World Records is under process," Kumar revealed.
 

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