UN Doctors successfully remove 4-pound brain tumor, bigger than head itself

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2018/...ound-brain-tumor-bigger-than-head-itself.html

Surgeons in India successfully removed what they think is the largest brain tumor in record, weighing in at 4 pounds.

Ever since he was the age of one, Santlal Pal lived with swelling of the scalp, heaviness, headaches and poor vision in both eyes.

Leading up to surgery, scans revealed the tumor had invaded the brain on both sides of the midline through his skull bone. The patient's scalp had swelled up so much, he appeared as if he had two heads.

"Such large tumors are rare and are a surgical challenge,” Dr. Trimurti Nadkarni, the lead surgeon, told news service SWNS.

During the seven-hour surgery, doctors removed the massive tumor along with skull bone which had moved into the brain.

The cloth seller, who is 31 years old, has made a remarkable recovery following a transfusion of 11 units of blood and three days on life support.

"There was a heavy blood loss and this required great team skill in perioperative monitoring for a successful result," Nadkarni said.

He also told the International Business Times that his team checked all the available medical texts and did not find any tumor as big as this.

“In fact, the tumor was much bigger than his own head,” he noted.

The surgeon said that he had removed a tumor that weighed 1.4 kg (3.08 pounds) from a patient in 2002.

Nadkarni was pleased with the outcome of the new case.

"The patient has made good recovery and is now ambulatory and on full diet," he said. "He feels relieved of a large burden on his head.”

 

[The Great Chandler]

Wouldn't wish to see the before photo of the poor guy. Really glad we have surgeons.

 

[KimCoppolaAficionado]

Why are most of these crazy tumors in India?

Large amounts of uranium close to the surface does strange things to DNA.

 

[Manah]

The human body is a goddamn nightmare.

 

[Dysnomia]

You see them in Africa too. Shitholes without proper healthcare let problems like this spiral out of control whereas they'd be treated in civilized nations.

That's why you see people with these huge face tumors that would have been excised ages ago had they been born in a western country. Didn't a child recently die from this? They tried to remove the tumor from his face but it was just so severe that he died shortly after the surgery.

You've got to be pretty resilient just to survive with such an awful affliction. This guy actually had a job. And here in 'Murrica we've got people collecting tugboats because of a few aches and pains that they've convinced the government that they can't work because of.

 

[Slap47]

People with the strength to go into medicine should be given free educations and most education funding should be pushed into training doctors. It takes alot to become a doctor and it shouldn't be made any harder by costs.

Also the use of all kinds of chemicals that are banned in richer parts of the world, like extremely deadly pesticides and mutation-causing herbicides.

The age of the American freak show goes from 1840 to 1920-1930. Most of the freaks were taken from the industrial centers of Ohio and Pennsylvania. Oddly enough, the age died out with the rise of eugenics and regulation.

The British freak show age started in 1700 under similar circumstances.

Sidebar, but this is why I hate when hipsters insist on solar panels, wind turbines (which need permanent magnets, unlike regular generators) and battery storage and all this "green" shit. These are all made in out of the way shitholes because the pollutants and byproducts of their manufacture are so fucking toxic only countries like India and China will touch them.
So yeah, finger wagging Melbourne hipster cunt, your prius might use less fuel than my Outback but my Outback didn't cause a baby to be born with brain-tumours for eyes in some Chinese village.

Trendy rich liberals who care only about appearances will always exist. Not much you can do about that.
They screech about climate change the loudest but travel internationally the most and talk about environmentalism but one will quickly find that coastal liberal cities tend to dump raw untreated sewage and garbage into oceans. They'll talk about poverty but at a glance it's obvious that all of the cities that say "fuck it" and just give homeless people free homes are conservative while the most vicious to the homeless are trendy liberal places (homeless spikes, SanFran anti-homeless militias, etc).

 

[polonium]

Trendy rich liberals who care only about appearances will always exist. Not much you can do about that.

I know, it's just one of the few things I find hard to shrug off. It's like.. we could have colonised Mars by now except for these retards dragging us down and wasting resources and attention