Delhi doctors remove 7 kg ovarian tumour

By IANS
Friday, February 11, 2011

NEW DELHI - An ovarian tumor weighing 7 kg was successfully removed by doctors in a city hospital in a four-hour long surgery, hospital officials said Friday.

The 45-year-old woman was admitted to the Action Cancer Hospital in Paschim Vihar area of west Delhi Jan 27 following complaints of abdominal distension and the doctors detected the 7 kg, 10-inch tumour.

“A team of doctors headed by S.K. Das, senior consultant of Gynae-Oncology, performed the surgery” the official said.

The surgery was done without a break and the patient was discharged six days later,” Das said.

Filed under: Cancer, Medicine

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