Updated On: 24 November, 2025 07:27 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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

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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.