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8-year-old girl with giant leg tumor admitted to Vietnam hospital 

April 11, 2012

Nguyen Thi Loan and her gigantic left leg

An eight-year-old girl who has a massive tumor on her left leg was admitted to a Ho Chi Minh City hospital Monday, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported.
Nguyen Thi Loan from the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong underwent scans and tests at the Children’s Hospital 2 where doctors plan to discuss her case Wednesday.
Loan, born to Nguyen Cong Duc, 35, and Nguyen Thi Tam, 30, had an unusually large left leg when she was born.
Twenty days after her birth, her parents took her to the Children’s Hospital 1 where doctors diagnosed her with hemangioma of infancy and said they could not provide treatment for her.

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When she turned three, her left leg grew bigger.
According to her mother, she suffers from terrible pains whenever the weather changed that make her unable to eat or sleep .
The family recently took her to Lam Dong Province General Hospital but doctors there were unable to diagnose her condition.

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Mekong Delta man struggles with giant tumors on hand, back 

April 11, 2012

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Le Thanh Vu, 26, suffers from giant tumors in his back and left arm.

It looks like Le Thanh Vu always carries a number of large bags in his left arm and on his back.

They are actually tumors that the 26-year-old man from Mong Tho Commune in Chau Thanh District, Kien Giang Province, has been suffering for more than two decades.

“He was born normal just like others but the tumors appeared in his chest, back and left hand since he was four years old,” said his mother Mui.

“His left arm began to grow rapidly and swallowed his shoulder and arm,” she said, adding that her son has become thin with the growth of the tumors.

Vu weighs 50 kilograms, but Mui said half of the weight belongs to the tumors, including three large ones on his back.

Although he cannot use his left hand, Vu tries to eke out a living selling lottery tickets since his father died several years ago.

“The other children got married and have their own families. Anyway, they are too poor to support me and Vu,” Mui said.

Vu said he sells about 60 lottery tickets to earn about VND60,000 (US$2.9) per day. He rents a small house for VND350,000 ($16.8) per month to stay in the province’s center, where he can sell more lottery tickets than at home.

“A kind family donates two meals per day. That’s why I have been able to save a little money to send to my mother,” he said.

Vu said the giant tumors make it really difficult to do simple things like wearing a shirt.

His mother said the family was so poor that they did not seek  any diagnosis or treatment of his disease.

“I suffer from frequent ailments and have to depend on him, while he is already struggling to earn a living,” she said.

By Dinh Phu, Thanh Nien News 

82 kilo Tumor removed, Duy Hai to go home

Man who had 82-kg tumor removed could go home next month 

February 13, 2012

Nguyen Duy Hai of Lam Dong Province, the 33-year-old man who had an 82-kilogram tumor removed on January 5, has recovered sufficiently to be discharged from the hospital, doctors said.
“However, it will take some more time to complete the skin transplantation,” said Dr. Phan Van Thai of Ho Chi Minh City’s FV Hospital.
He said that Hai developed necrosis two weeks after the surgery. However, his wounds healed well after another two weeks without becoming infected and in that time he stopped using painkillers, he said.
Just one month after the surgery, Hai was able to stand up and walk on crutches for a few steps, the hospital said.
“It was an amazing recovery and brought extreme happiness not only to Hai but for the entire hospital staff who have been taking care of him,” it said.
Sylvie Nguyen of FV Hospital said she had prepared a special diet for Hai. “We divided it into 10 meals per day because he could not eat much each time. Every meal is rich in calories to improve his health and to prepare him for the skin transplant,” she said.
Catherine Cousin, head of the hospital’s physical therapy ward, said Hai has been very diligent in doing his prescribed exercises and has shown great improvement.

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Doctors said Hai will have to stay in the hospital for an additional month to have a series of skin transplant procedures, after which time, they expect him to return to his home in Lam Dong’s Da Lat Town, where he plans to learn how to repair mobile phones in order to earn a living.
Hai’s surgery represents the biggest tumor to be successfully removed in Vietnam. It was conducted by the Chicago-based surgeon McKay McKinnon during a 12-hour surgery conducted by a team of 60 doctors, nurses and medical technicians at FV Hospital.

By Khanh An, Thanh Nien News 

PICTURE BUGS: 198 Pound Tumor

198 Pound Tumor

198 Pound Tumor

VIETNAMESE MAN'S 198-POUND TUMOR REMOVED

(CNN) -- A Vietnamese man is recovering in the intensive care unit Friday, a day after surgery that completely removed a 198-pound (90-kg) tumor from his right leg, according to the hospital.

The 12-hour procedure, performed at FV Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, had been considered risky with a 50% success rate because of the amount of blood vessels around the tumor.The tumor was first discovered when the patient, Nguyen Duy Hai, 31, of Da Lat City, was four years old, according to FV Hospital. He had undergone a surgery to remove it in 1997, but in 2001, the tumor grew, and no doctors agreed to operate on him, the hospital said.

The growing tumor had rendered Hai virtually immobile until his surgery.

The latest surgery, which required Hai's torso to be elevated, was performed by a team of surgeons from FV Hospital and led by Dr. McKay McKinnon, a specialist in plastic and reconstructive surgery from Chicago.

McKinnon has been credited with removing a 200-pound tumor from a woman in the U.S. state of Michigan in 2000 as well as a 176-pound (80 kilo) tumor from a Romanian woman in 2004.

Doctors expect that Hai's cardiac and pulmonary functions will return to normal over the next 10 days.

The hospital had set up a live video feed of the surgery for other doctors and hospitals to watch.

The cost of the surgery was estimated at $20,000, but the hospital said it will charge 60% of the cost, which will be covered jointly by the Red Cross of Da Lat City and sponsors.

The hospital said it is financing all the traveling costs and accommodation for Dr. McKinnon, who is performing the surgery free of charge. 303-pound tumor removed

Source:http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/06/health/vietnam-tumor/index.htm

PICTURE BUGS: 198 Pound Tumor

Doctors give up on 90-kg tumor | Look At Vietnam - Vietnam news daily update

Doctors give up on 90-kg tumor

December 3, 2011 about Health

Nguyen Duy Hai will not be able to get rid of his 90-kilogram tumor.

Doctors at Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City Tumor Hospital have decided against removing a local man’s 90-kilogram tumor, saying the procedure would cost the patient his life, VnExpress reported.
They said Nguyen Duy Hai, 31, had pleural effusion, which would cause respiratory failure after such an operation.
Massive blood loss during the procedure could also threaten the patient’s life, doctors said.
“We compared performing a risky surgery with letting the patient live with his non-painful tumor, and we chose the second option,” said Dr Pham Xuan Dung, deputy director of the hospital.
Hai will soon be brought back to his home in Da Lat, a mountain town in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong. Doctors said they would continue to monitor Hai in case they may be able to operate on him in the future.
The HCMC Tumor Hospital said it was willing to provide assistance to any health organization or medical clinic able to perform surgery on Hai.
Hai said he was not “too upset” about the cancelation of the surgery because he has a lot of caring people around him.
Hai has been diagnosed with Neurofibromatosis type I (NF-1), formerly known as von Recklinghausen disease, a human genetic disorder.
Hai was a normal infant, but his right leg grew much bigger than his left leg by the time he turned four years old.

After doctors amputated his right leg 14 years ago, a tumor kept growing and has since swallowed portions of his buttocks and back.
This July, when Hai was admitted to the HCMC Tumor Hospital, the tumor was approximately 1 meter wide and weighed about 80 kilograms (176 pounds).
The tumor now weighs 90 kilograms.

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Da Lat: Young man carries 80kg tumor for ten years

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LookAtVietnam - Nguyen Duy Hai, 31, in the resort city of Da Lat in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has been carrying a tumor weighing 80kg on his right leg for 10 years. The tumor still keeps developing.

Hai’s mother, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Cho Con, 61, told VietNamNet that Hai was very healthy and normal at birth. However, when he was four, the lower part of his right leg began to develop extra growth, causing difficulties in walking.
The tumor weighed around 28kg when Hai was 17. The tumor was very painful and Hai could not walk.
His family took him to the Lam Dong General Hospital for treatment, but doctors failed to identify the cause. His family asked doctors to cut off the excess growth.
However, the remaining part of Hai’s right leg began to develop into a tumor that kept growing larger and larger, until it covered the entire bottom portion of his body. At its largest, the tumor is 1.17m long, weighing over 80kg.
Hai now relies on his 61-year-old mother for all his daily activities, including personal hygiene.
He hopes doctors can remove the tumor.
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Cancer top threat to human life: Ministry

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VietNamNet Bridge - Nearly 200,000 Vietnamese will contract cancer and 100,000 will die of the disease during this and next year, making it the biggest threat to public health, among non-contagious diseases, warned the Ministry of Health.

The warning was annouced at a meeting in Hanoi on July 8 to review one year of implementing the national goals on cancer prevention and treatment and to discuss plans for 2009-2010.

Deputy Minister Nguyen Thi Xuyen said at that the project was first started in 2008 to promote cancer prevention and treatment at local medical centres to gradually reduce mortality rates and improve the living conditions of cancer patients.

The Deputy Director of the Tumours and Cancers Hospital Dr. Tran Van Thuan said that recent surveys have shown poor public awareness of the disease as well as obsolete technical infrastructure at major hospitals in all 63 provinces and cities.

Out of 12,050 people surveyed in 12 provinces and cities, only 35 percent gave the correct answers. 67.2 percent said cancer is incurable so early or late diagnosis doesn’t make any difference, and 35.8 percent believed that surgery makes cancer grow faster and actually hastesn a patient’s death.

Nine out of 63 major hospitals at the provincial level in the survey have not yet set up a department of oncology and 10 others have refused to treat cancer patients at all.

This is a major cause of the increasing number of cancer patients, and deaths, in Vietnam, he emphasised.

To cope with the problem, the project is designed to help all pilot provinces and cities to launch information and education campaigns to raise public awareness of the disease at a local level.

It has also set a target of providing medical check-ups for the early diagnosis of breast and uterine cancers for 50,000 women in the high-risk age group. Surveys on cancer at communal level will be conducted in the central city of Danang and the southern province of Kien Giang .

Over the past year, the project has helped to set up five additional tumour and cancer departments at hospitals in five provinces, four in the north and one in the central region.

In addition, over 31,500 women in the high risk age group between 30 and 54 have undergone medical check-ups for breast and uterine cancers.

The project has also helped to set up a model of community-based medical treatments for cancer patients in a critical condition in Hanoi and the central province of Thua Thien-Hue . The Cancer and Tumour Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City has opened a department to manage pain and track the development of cancers under the project.

Breast and uterine cancers affected 27.3 women out of every 100,000 people in the north and 17.1 of every 100,000 in the south.

For men, lung and stomach cancers are the biggest threat.

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10 lbs Tumor girl is 17th bed ridden

A 10-kilogram tumor on seventeen-year-old Pham Thi Xinh’s leg keeps her in bed all day, her skinny body getting thinner, breathing becoming more difficult.

“I wish I could recover and go to school again. I miss my friends and school so much,” the former eighth grader at Ngo Sy Lien Secondary School in Da Nang says in obvious pain.

Her dream of returning to school and becoming an artist grows all the more distant each day as the malignant cartilage tumor that surfaced in 2007 continues to develop.

Treatment for the would-be fatal tumor costs around VND200 million (US$11,250), something Xinh’s poor family simply can’t afford.

Her father, Pham Tam, is a construction worker and her mother collects scrap materials on the street. They earn a total of around VND70,000 ($4) per day to raise the child and her two siblings.

Tam said his daughter’s first symptoms began in October 2007 when she returned from school complaining of fever, fatigue and pain in her left thigh.

The family admitted her to Da Nang Hospital weeks later after the pain became worse and the thigh swelled.

After two months of treatment, she was transferred to the Traumatology and Orthopedics Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, where doctors diagnosed her with a malignant cartilage tumor.

The family brought her back to Da Nang a month later because they couldn’t afford the hospital fees.

“She’s been in bed ever since then,” Tam said, adding that it pained him to be so short on money that sometimes he couldn’t afford even a cup of milk for his sick daughter.

He said the girl’s only hope would be outside philanthropy.

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Doctors remove parasitic fetus from girl in southern Vietnam

Doctors successfully removed a parasitic fetus from a seven-year-old girl last Friday, a representative from the Dong Nai Pediatric Hospital said on Saturday.
Nguyen Thi Hong Hanh was admitted to the hospital on October 16 with a stomachache which was found to be caused by a tumor measuring 20 cm long, 12 cm wide and 12 cm thick.
The tumor was identified as a parasitic twin with a vertebral column, arms, legs, internal organs and a head with no brain. The fetus weighed 1.2 kilograms and took up half the girl’s abdominal cavity.
The mass was removed during a two-hour operation on October 17.
Doctors said the condition, known as fetus in fetu, is a rare abnormality occurring once out of every 500,000 live births when a fetus becomes enveloped inside its twin in utero.
The parasitic twin can develop an entire organ system within the host twin but lacks critical functioning of many vital organs and is essentially considered a tumor.
In related news, doctors from Hanoi’s Vietnam National Hospital of Pediatrics removed a parasitic fetus from a six-month-old girl earlier this month.
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Cutting- Edge Technology at Bangkok Hospital Offers Hope to Patients With Tumors

Until recently, patients with inoperable tumors had little recourse to improve their conditions. But Bangkok Hospital Medical Center now offers advanced technology that literally provides a ray of hope.
(I-Newswire) - Bangkok, Thailand ( NetSweets ) June 30, 2008 – Patients with brain tumors for decades have had limited options for treatment, but the latest cutting-edge technology at the Bangkok Hospital Medical Center now offers hope.Previously, many patients could not be treated with radiotherapy because their tumors were too close to critical brain structures. Bangkok Hospital Medical Center ( BMC ) has acquired Novalis technology that involves shaped-beam radiation surgery, meaning many of these tumors can now be treated.Novalis shapes the radiation beams to match the exact shape of the tumor or lesion. The result is the tumor or lesion receives its prescribed dose of radiation, while avoiding critical tissues and organs. The primary advantages of stereotactic radiosurgery are its precision and minimal risk. Equipped with highly sophisticated computer-based imaging techniques, Novalis delivers the radiation beam with high precision and produces a sharp radiation dose gradient at the tumor and normal tissue boundary.It is the most clinically advanced cancer treatment option for patients often considered to have inoperable tumors,” says Jason Chandler, Novalis’ national sales manager.The Novalis procedure is non-invasive, painless and eliminates the risks associated with major surgery. Many patients are able to have shaped-beam surgery as a day treatment procedure.The actual treatment session typically takes less than 30 minutes. This involves the movement of the Novalis machine around the head or body as the focused beams converge on the target. Multiple radiation beams radiate the tumor from different angles. The invisible radiation is not felt at all.Novalis technology was initially used to treat tumors and lesions in the brain, head and neck. The latest upgrades have increased the accuracy and reliability, allowing its use on inoperable tumors in the spine, lungs, liver, breast, prostate and other areas in the body.Novaris may be the treatment of choice for patients whose doctors cannot perform traditional surgery because of the increased risk of harming critical structures inside the brain, BMC says. According to the Bangkok Hospital Medical Center, the latest cutting-edge technology gives patients a fighting chance to overcome their illnesses and a better quality of life after treatment.