Delhi doctors remove rare 14.5-kg cancerous tumour in 10-hour complex surgery

New Delhi, Jun 17 (PTI) Doctors at a Delhi hospital have successfully removed a rare 14.5-kg cancerous tumour from a 55-year-old woman in a complex 10-hour surgery, in what the hospital described as one of India’s largest reported abdominal tumour resections.

The surgery was performed at Fortis Escorts Hospital in Okhla on Kuldeep Kaur, a nurse by profession, who had been battling severe breathlessness and difficulty in walking for nearly four months as the tumour rapidly grew inside her abdomen.

According to the hospital, diagnostic investigations, including PET-CT, CT scan and MRI, revealed a massive cancerous tumour occupying a significant portion of her abdominal cavity.

The growth measured around 30 cm by 30 cm and was identified as a rare

abdominal cancer.

Doctors said the tumour had completely encased the patient’s left kidney, making its removal unavoidable during the operation. During the procedure, surgeons also detected a large uterine fibroid and subsequently removed the uterus, both ovaries and the fallopian tubes.

The surgical team carried out an open abdominal surgery, or laparotomy, to extract the giant tumour while carefully preserving surrounding organs and major blood vessels.

Dr Archit Pandit, Director, Surgical Oncology, said surgery was the patient’s only realistic treatment option as the tumour had failed to respond to chemotherapy.

“Successfully removing a tumour of this magnitude while safeguarding vital structures required the highest level of oncological and surgical expertise,” he said.

The hospital said the patient recovered well after the operation and was discharged in stable condition within a week.

Doctors noted that such tumours are extremely rare, accounting for less than one per cent of all abdominal tumours and representing only a small fraction of already uncommon sarcoma cases. PTI SGV NB NB