Vietnam successfully performs first liver transplant on child patient with late-stage cancer


Doctors perform the liver transplant surgery. — vietnamplus.vn

HANOI (Vietnam News/ANN): Doctors from the National Children's Hospital and the 108 Central Military Hospital have successfully performed a liver transplant on an 18-month-old girl suffering from malignant hepatoblastoma.

According to Dr Nguyễn Phạm Anh Hoa, head of the Hepatology Department and Dr Bùi Ngọc Lan, head of the Oncology Department of the National Children's Hospital, the girl was diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer when she was 11 months old. The healthy part of her liver was too small, making it impossible to cut out the cancerous part of the organ.

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