Delhi: Cancerous tumour removed from 4-yr-old girl’s kidney

New Delhi: A four-year-old girl after complaining of unbearable abdominal pain was diagnosed with a kidney tumour in August. After going through a surgery, the cancerous tumour was successfully removed along with the girl’s kidney at a hospital in New Delhi. After being admitted to the hospital, it came to be found that she had Wilms’ tumour which is a kind of cancer that generally affects children.

Dr Prashant Jain, Senior Consultant of Paediatric Surgery and Paediatric Urology, BLK Centre for Child Health told that it is the most common form of cancer in the kidneys among children and affects children in the age group of two to four.

Dr Jain added that the condition is also known as nephroblastoma and it becomes less common among



children after five years of age. The patient had a lump in the left side of her abdomen, her ultrasonography and CT scan revealed that a huge tumour was emerging out of her left kidney which was displacing the adjacent major vessels and compressing the surrounding organs. The doctor said that keeping in mind the complications, it was decided that a left radical nephrectomy is performed upon the patient.

The tumour was first dissected from the adjacent organs in order to make sure there was no major internal bleeding involved following which the whole left kidney was removed along with the tumour, the doctor added. After a biopsy, it was revealed that the girl was a patient of stage two Wilms’ tumour. She would now require chemotherapy for further treatment, said the doctor.