Osmania Doctors did a rare surgery

Hyderabad, March 21: The Doctors of Osmania General Hospital removed a gaint cancerous tumour measuring 20 centimetres from a 70-year-old woman's gall bladder in a rare surgery earlier this month.

The procedure, which lasted over six hours, saw doctors remove the tumour of Hafeeza Begum came from old city, who complained of severe abdominal pain. Unable to afford treatment in a private hospital, she came to the OGH.

Ch. Madhusudhan, head of surgical gastroenterology, said though gall bladder cancers tend to be aggressive cancer, the woman has high chance of surviving beyond five years as the cancer was a localised mass.


"We removed a 20cm tumour from the patient's gallbladder on March 3 and she was discharged on March 18. This is the biggest tumour ever removed in the world. The tumour removed from a patient in Japan previously was 10cm," said Dr Ch Madhusudhan during a media conference on Monday. The surgery lasted for six hours.

The surgery, doctors said, was performed free of cost. It would have otherwise costed 50 lakh. Apart from the tumour, doctors also removed the gallbladder, portion of the liver, lymph nodes.

Gallbladder cancer is the fifth most common cancer involving gastrointestinal tract. Patients usually survive only for five years and 5% patients die within six months of being detected with the same.

This cancer has high incidence in Chile and Japan. In India, doctors said, it's most prevalent in the north where incidence is very high with 22 patients per every 1,00,000 detected with it.

Guinness World Record

Dr. Madhusudhan said they would submit details of the procedure to a peer-reviewed medical journal and to Guinness World Records as a gall bladder tumor so massive in size was never removed before.