16-hour surgery relieves cancer patient of pain
Chennai:20.03.2021
Surgeons cheered as a 26-year-old patient walked out of the lift and smiled at flashing media cameras. A little more than a fortnight ago, seven surgeons had worked for 16 hours to remove a cancerous tumour that was compressing her spine and abdominal organs.
When the woman, who works at a factory that makes zips for clothes, came to the Cancer Institute (WIA) in Adyar with excruciating pain after concurrent chemo-radiotherapy for four month from August, 2020 failed. Doctors told her surgery was the only option for the tumour, called Chondrosarcoma, which started from the L3 vertebra on the spine.
“We decided to remove the tumour using enbloc resection. This means we would resect the entire tumour in one go,” said senior surgeon Dr Anand Raja.
In the theatre the patient was made to lie down on her stomach. “We started the surgery from the spine. We removed a third of L3, her right kidney and urethra, but we managed to keep all other blood vessels and her bowels intact,” he said.
Five days after the surgery, the patient began to move out of her bed and quickly recovered. TNN
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