Giant 110Kg Tumour Removed From Man Who Could Not Move For 20 Years

The world’s largest tumour have been removed
from a body of a Chinese man in Beijing.
It took 9 doctors and 960 minutes (16 hours) of
painstaking work to remove 110kg of
unnecessary flesh. During the operation the
unusual patient, Yang Jianbin, received 5000ml
of blood, which is more than the entire amount
an adult’s body holds.
Yang suffers from neurofibromatosis, a genetic
disorder that disturbs cell growth in the nervous
system, causing tumors to form on nerve
tissue. He was born with a dark birth mark on
the right side of his lower back.
At the age of nine it started growing into a
tumour, by 12 it was the size of a fist and he
had surgery to remove it. But it quickly started
to grow again seriously affecting his life, the 37-
year-old man could only lie down or sit on his
bed.
Chief surgeon Chen Minliang said, "We have
seen neurofibromatosis patients before, but this
is the biggest nerve tumor we ever saw. Yang is
now recovering well and it expected to be
discharged later this month."