Home / Lifestyle / Health & Fitness / Article / Mumbai docs give new lease of life to surgeon suffering from rare bone cancer

Mumbai docs give new lease of life to surgeon suffering from rare bone cancer

The doctors at a city hospital performed the 15-hour long surgery to remove the bone cancer called sacral chordoma, a rare type of cancer, which has fewer than 1 case per million in the world

Listen to this article :
Image for representational purpose only. Photo Courtesy: File pic

Image for representational purpose only. Photo Courtesy: File pic

Doctors at a hospital in Mumbai have successfully treated a talented young GI surgeon from Delhi following a ground-breaking sacral bone cancer chordoma surgery.

The intricate procedure, which utilised advanced navigation techniques and nerve-sparing technique with intra-operative neuromonitoring (IONM), was led by Dr Manit Gundavda, orthopaedic oncologist and lead surgeon at Kokilaben Hospital in Mumbai.

Trending Stories

Latest Photoscta-pos

Latest VideosView All

Latest Web StoriesView All

Mid-Day FastView All

Advertisement