A doctor in India broke the Guinness record for the removing the biggest bone tumor
“The rare surgical feat of removing a 16.5kg malignant bone tumour — so far the largest of its kind — from the right femur (thighbone) of a patient has earned for an Indian doctor a place in the latest edition of Guinness Book of world records.
Dr. B K S Sanjay, Director of the Dehra Dun-based Doon Paramedical Hospital in Uttaranchal, carried out a 10-hour surgery on 35-year-old Naresh Kumar.at the Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Dehra Dun on June 10, 2002. The tumour (chondrosarcoma) had a maximum length of 45 cm and was 30 cm wide.”
