Cancer patient in Chennai undergoes femur implant and kidney removal in same procedure

The 54-year-old patient, a lady from Assam had been bedridden for three months, owing to a fracture and a subsequent injury on the left thigh bone.

Chennai: In a six-hour-long surgical procedure, doctors in Chennai performed a thigh bone replacement and a left kidney removal procedure simultaneously, to revive a cancer patient. The 54-year-old patient, a lady from Assam had been bedridden for three months, owing to a fracture and a subsequent injury on the left thigh bone. The doctors who examined her at the Apollo Proton Cancer Center in Chennai diagnosed her with metastatic left renal cell carcinoma. This is a type of cancer where the cancer cells from the originally affected site travel to other parts of the body and cause tumors.